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Does the EU have a homogeneous urban structure area? : the role of agglomeration and the impact of (hypothetical) shocks on the EU urban structure
Modica, Marco - 2014
not possible to define as random. Indeed, countries have faced a strong tendency toward agglomeration, namely population … gathers within proper areas like cities, and currently the agglomeration within cities "is an extremely complex amalgam of … the hierarchical structure of the cities within the EU Member States with particular attention on agglomeration forces by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011503498
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Does the EU have homogeneous urban structure area? The role of agglomeration and the impact of shocks on urban structure
Modica, Marco - 2014
not possible to define as random. Indeed, countries have faced a strong tendency toward agglomeration, namely population … gathers within proper areas like cities, and currently the agglomeration within cities "is an extremely complex amalgam of … the hierarchical structure of the cities within the EU Member States with particular attention on agglomeration forces by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399955
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Explaining the Size Distribution of Cities: X-treme Economies
Berliant, Marcus; Watanabe, Hiroki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We criticize the theories used to explain the size distribution of cities. They take an empirical fact and work backward to obtain assumptions on primitives. The induced theoretical assumptions on consumer behavior, particularly about their inability to insure against the city-level productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369599
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Explaining the size distribution of cities: x-treme economies
Berliant, Marcus; Watanabe, Hiroki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We criticize the theories used to explain the size distribution of cities. They take an empirical fact and work backward to obtain assumptions on primitives. The induced theoretical assumptions on consumer behavior, particularly about their inability to insure against the city-level productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278282
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Explaining the size distribution of cities: x-treme economies
Berliant, Marcus; Watanabe, Hiroki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We criticize the theories used to explain the size distribution of cities. They take an empirical fact and work backward to obtain assumptions on primitives. The induced theoretical assumptions on consumer behavior, particularly about their inability to insure against the city-level productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458503
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Explaining the size distribution of cities: x-treme economies
Berliant, Marcus; Watanabe, Hiroki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We criticize the theories used to explain the size distribution of cities. They take an empirical fact and work backward to obtain assumptions on primitives. The induced theoretical assumptions on consumer behavior, particularly about their inability to insure against the city-level productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787001
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Explaining the size distribution of cities: x-treme economies
Berliant, Marcus; Watanabe, Hiroki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The methodology used by theories to explain the size distribution of cities takes an empirical fact and works backward to first obtain a reduced form of a model, then pushes this reduced form back to assumptions on primitives. The induced assumptions on consumer behavior, particularly about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787178
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Explaining the size distribution of cities: X-treme economies
Berliant, Marcus; Watanabe, Hiroki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The methodology used by theories to explain the size distribution of cities is contrived in that it takes an empirical fact and works backward to first obtain a reduced form of a model, then pushes this reduced form back to assumptions on primitives. The induced assumptions on consumer behavior,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789453
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Pareto or log-normal? A recursive-truncation approach to the distribution of (all) cities
Fazio, Giorgio; Modica, Marco - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 2012
Traditionally, it is assumed that the population size of cities in a country follows a Pareto distribution. This assumption is typically supported by finding evidence of Zipf's Law. Recent studies question this finding, highlighting that, while the Pareto distribution may fit reasonably well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896984
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Explaining the size distribution of cities: x-treme economies
Berliant, Marcus; Watanabe, Hiroki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We criticize the theories used to explain the size distribution of cities. They take an empirical fact and work backward to obtain assumptions on primitives. The induced theoretical assumptions on consumer behavior, particularly about their inability to insure against the city-level productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835673