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We investigated the distribution functions of Korea’s top-rated companies during two financial crises. A power-law scaling for rank distribution, as well as cumulative probability distribution, was found and observed as a general pattern. Similar distributions can be shown in other studies of wealth and income distributions. In our study, the Pareto exponents designating the distribution differed before and after the crisis. The companies covered in this research are divided into two subgroups during a period when the subprime mortgage crisis occurred. Various industrial sectors of Korea’s companies were found to respond differently during the two financial crises, especially the construction sector, financial sectors, and insurance groups.
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Lim, K., Kim, S.Y., Swanson, T. et al. Effects of the financial crisis on the wealth distribution of Korea’s companies. Journal of the Korean Physical Society 70, 236–244 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.70.236
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