The size distribution of innovations revisited: an application of extreme value statistics to citation and value measures of patent significance

DOI10.1016/j.jeconom.2006.10.017zbMath1418.62534OpenAlexW3021924892MaRDI QIDQ280256

Gerald Silverberg, Bart Verspagen

Publication date: 9 May 2016

Published in: Journal of Econometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://collections.unu.edu/view/UNU:1170

zbMATH Keywords

skewed distributionsheavy tailsextreme-value statisticspatent citationsreturns to invention

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Statistics of extreme values; tail inference (62G32)

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Uses Software

• ismev

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