Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2021
German city growth and the resulting city size distribution. If city growth follows a random walk this would imply that the … walk hypothesis is not confirmed, this would mean that the war shock had at most a temporary effect on the city growth … process. Our main finding is that city growth in western Germany did not follow a random walk, while in eastern Germany it did …