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

DOI10.1016/J.JECONOM.2006.10.017zbMATH Open1418.62534OpenAlexW3021924892MaRDI QIDQ280256FDOQ280256

Authors: 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

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zbMATH Keywords

heavy tailsskewed distributionsextreme-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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• A robust test for monotonicity in asset returns
• On the robustness of location estimators in models of firm growth under heavy-tailedness
• A Schumpeterian growth model with random quality improvements
• Sieve-based inference for infinite-variance linear processes
• Asymptotic behavior of expected shortfall for portfolio loss under bivariate dependent structure
• Unit root inference for non-stationary linear processes driven by infinite variance innovations
• Heavy tails and copulas: limits of diversification revisited
• A family of nonparametric unit root tests for processes driven by infinite variance innovations
• Value at risk and efficiency under dependence and heavy-tailedness: models with common shocks
• Effects of patent policy on growth and inequality: exogenous versus endogenous quality improvements
• Portfolio diversification under local and moderate deviations from power laws
• On the asymptotics of value-at-risk for portfolio loss under bivariate Eyraud-Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern copula and heavy tails

Uses Software

• ismev

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