BoSe (Bottazzi-Secchi model of firms growth)

This is a little collection of programs written to test and study the Bottazzi-Secchi model of firm growth. The model is described in the following papers

• G.Bottazzi, A.Secchi "Explaining the Distribution of Firms Growth Rates", Rand Journal of Economics, fothcoming.
• G.Bottazzi, A.Secchi (2003) "Why are distributions of firm growth rates tent-shaped?", Economic Letters vol. 80 pp.415-420, 2003.
• G.Bottazzi, A. Secchi (2003) "A Stochastic Model of Firm Growth", Physica A vol. 324 pp. 213-129, 2003.
• G.Bottazzi and A. Secchi (2002) "On The Laplace Distribution of Firms Growth Rates" L.E.M. Working Paper n. 2002-20.

Documentation:

For a basic description of the model and an introduction to the use of the different programs see this overview.

Requirements:

• This package makes use of the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) (version above 1.2).
• A C compiler and the standard C library. Unix-like environment in which GNU auto-tools can work is required for automatic installation.
• The Python scripts in this package require the Numerical module.

Downloads:

The latest package version (tar.gz) contains the source code, installation instructions and the above documentations in text format.