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Power Laws, Prices and National Accounts: Are There Any Irregularities?

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  • Pater, Ciprian Florin
  • Mazrekaj, Deni

    (Utrecht University)

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Many economic regularities have been found to adhere to power laws. In this paper, we apply Benford’s law to consumer price index data from Norway and Zipf’s law on a Norwegian report about the history of Norwegian national accounts. Norway is a particularly interesting country to study as it scores among the highest-ranked countries on data quality. We find that the consumer price index adheres to Benford’s law, showing high data quality. On the other hand, our results do indicate that the report does not adhere to Zipf’s law.

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  • Pater, Ciprian Florin & Mazrekaj, Deni, 2020. "Power Laws, Prices and National Accounts: Are There Any Irregularities?," SocArXiv gwha2_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:gwha2_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/gwha2_v1
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