Giesen, Kristian; Suedekum, Jens - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2013
There has been vast interest in the distribution of city sizes in an economy, but this research has largely neglected …,000 American cities, we find that older cities in the US tend to be larger than younger ones. To take this nexus between city age … and city size into account, we introduce endogenous city creation into a dynamic economic model of an urban system. The …