Power Laws in Firm Productivity(Real Economy,Proceedings of the YITP Workshop on Econophysics,Econophysics 2011-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Economy-) :

• Takayuki Mizuno

• Atushi Ishikawa

• Shouji Fujimoto

• Tsutomu Watanabe

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Other Title

• Power Laws in Firm Productivity

Abstract

We estimate firm productivity for about 3.2 million firms from 30 countries. We find that the distribution of firm productivity in each country, which is measured by total factor productivity (TFP), has a power law upper tail. However, the power law exponent of a TFP distribution in a country tends to be greater than that of a sales distribution in that country, indicating that the upper tail of a TFP distribution is less heavy compared to that of a sales distribution. We also find that the power law exponent of a TFP distribution tends to be greater than the power law exponents associated with the number of workers or tangible fixed assets. Given the idea that the sales of a firm is determined by the amount of various inputs employed by the firm (i.e., "production function" in the terminology of economics), these results suggest that the heavy tail of a sales distribution in a country comes not from the tail of a TFP distribution, but from the tail of the distribution of the number of workers or tangible fixed assets.

Journal

• Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement

  Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement 194 122-134, 2012

  Oxford University Press (OUP)

Keywords

• Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

Details

• CRID: 1360847871808337024
• NII Article ID: 110009456877
• NII Article ID: 210000129108
• NII Book ID: AA00791466
• DOI: 10.1143/ptps.194.122
• ISSN: 03759687
• Web Site: http://academic.oup.com/ptps/article-pdf/doi/10.1143/PTPS.194.122/5187540/194-122.pdf
• Web Site: http://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/10887528
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