Escala para medir la concentración de los sectores de la economía mexicana mediante el coeficiente de zipf

Juan Josué Hernández-Oliva; Jorge Luis Alcaraz Vargas; Ricardo Lino Mansilla-Corona

doi:10.15446/cuad.econ.v39n81.60530

Escala para medir la concentración de los sectores de la economía mexicana mediante el coeficiente de zipf

Translated title of the contribution: A scale to measure the concentration of the economic sectors of Mexico using the zipf coefficient

Juan Josué Hernández-Oliva, Jorge Luis Alcaraz Vargas, Ricardo Lino Mansilla-Corona

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Abstract

This paper shows that the distribution of sales, net profit, assets and number of employees of the 500 largest companies in Mexico follow the Zipf Law. After calculating the Zipf coefficients for the period 2006-2017, they were used to create a scale that measures three different levels of intensity of competition among companies in six sectors of the Mexican economy. This scale indicates when the economic sector is concentrated and when the creation or destruction of companies is favoured. The Pareto principle was also found in the behaviour of the variables studied.

Translated title of the contribution	A scale to measure the concentration of the economic sectors of Mexico using the zipf coefficient
Original language	Spanish
Pages (from-to)	919-947
Number of pages	29
Journal	Cuadernos de Economia (Colombia)
Volume	39
Issue number	81
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15446/cuad.econ.v39n81.60530
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Escala para medir la concentración de los sectores de la economía mexicana mediante el coeficiente de zipf

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