Ioannides, Yannis M.; Skouras, Spyros - Department of Economics, Tufts University - 2009
We establish that the debate between Eeckhout (2004; 2009) and Levy (2009) has still not resolved the key issue of whether the distribution of large US urban places in 2000 is consistent with a lognormal for the intire size range. We resolve this by introducing a new distribution function which...