Richmond Fed's Economic Quarterly, Fall 2006

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond has published its Economic Quarterly for Fall 2006. The latest issue includes the article 'Changes in the size distribution of US banks: 1960-2005' which documents the large changes in the size distribution and size dynamics of banks from 1960 to 2005.

The authors find that neither the lognormal distribution nor the Pareto distribution fit the entire distribution, though they each do better with subsets of the distribution. Gibrat's Law is tested and found to

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