naa a22 4500 510728936 CHVBK 20180411082945.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11403-012-0103-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11403-012-0103-8 On the distributional properties of size, profit and growth of Icelandic firms [Elektronische Daten] [Einar Erlingsson, Simone Alfarano, Marco Raberto, Hlynur Stefánsson] In this paper, we analyze the distributional properties of the balance sheets of Icelandic firms by performing an empirical analysis of total assets, profit rates and growth rates using a data set of 2,818 Icelandic firms during the period 2000-2009. We find that the firms size measure, i.e. total assets, have the same heavy tail characteristics as various studies have shown, e.g. for US and Italian firms. The heavy tail nature of the total assets distribution seems to be robust w.r.t. a boom-bust cycle of the economy as well as special characteristics of Icelandic firms, e.g. their relatively small size and private ownership. Another important finding is that the profit rates, or return on assets, of Icelandic firms follow a Laplace like distribution similar to US firms. Additionally, we identified deviations from the distributional regularities, namely the power law behavior of firms' size and Laplacian distributions of growth and profit rates, during the booming period of the economy 2005-2007. Springer-Verlag, 2012 Firm size nationallicence Profit rates nationallicence Growth rates nationallicence Power law nationallicence Laplace distribution nationallicence Icelandic firms nationallicence Erlingsson Einar Reykjavik University, Menntavegur 1, 101, Reykjavík, Iceland aut Alfarano Simone Universitat Jaume I, Campus del Riu Sec, 12071, Castellón, Spain aut Raberto Marco DIME-DOGE.I, Università à di Genova, Via Opera Pia 15, 15145, Genoa, Italy aut Stefánsson Hlynur Reykjavik University, Menntavegur 1, 101, Reykjavík, Iceland aut Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination Springer-Verlag 8/1(2013-04-01), 57-74 1860-711X 8:1<57 2013 8 11403 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11403-012-0103-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11403-012-0103-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Erlingsson Einar Reykjavik University, Menntavegur 1, 101, Reykjavík, Iceland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Alfarano Simone Universitat Jaume I, Campus del Riu Sec, 12071, Castellón, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Raberto Marco DIME-DOGE.I, Università à di Genova, Via Opera Pia 15, 15145, Genoa, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stefánsson Hlynur Reykjavik University, Menntavegur 1, 101, Reykjavík, Iceland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination Springer-Verlag 8/1(2013-04-01), 57-74 1860-711X 8:1<57 2013 8 11403 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer