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Kinematics and dynamics of Pareto–Zipf's law and Gibrat's law

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  • Aoyama, Hideaki
  • Fujiwara, Yoshi
  • Souma, Wataru

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We discuss Pareto–Zipf's law and Gibrat's law found in the high-end regions of personal income, company's income, and various measures of company size. The fact that these phenomenological laws coexist in wide range of data suggests some deep mathematical relations between them. In this paper we find just such relationships under the law of detailed-balance. This sets a basis for perturbative treatment of the economic change.

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  • Aoyama, Hideaki & Fujiwara, Yoshi & Souma, Wataru, 2004. "Kinematics and dynamics of Pareto–Zipf's law and Gibrat's law," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 344(1), pages 117-121.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:344:y:2004:i:1:p:117-121
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.06.099
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    1. Fujiwara, Yoshi & Di Guilmi, Corrado & Aoyama, Hideaki & Gallegati, Mauro & Souma, Wataru, 2004. "Do Pareto–Zipf and Gibrat laws hold true? An analysis with European firms," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 335(1), pages 197-216.
    2. Fujiwara, Yoshi & Souma, Wataru & Aoyama, Hideaki & Kaizoji, Taisei & Aoki, Masanao, 2003. "Growth and fluctuations of personal income," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 321(3), pages 598-604.
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