The aim of this paper is to study the impacts of wars and conflicts on city-size growth and city-size distributions. It follows recent empirical work from Davis and Weinstein (2002), Bosker and al (2008) and Dimou and Schaffar (2009) who tried to understand how wars affected the Japanese, the...

Over the last decade, many researchers have focused on the study of different urban hierarchies and their evolution over time. These studies may or may not confirm Zipf’s law and emphasize the characteristics of urban growth. The question is then whether urban growth depends upon city-size or...

The main objective of this paper is to understand the effects of regional migration of households over city-size distribution, urban growth and real estate prices. The paper aims to study regional migration of elderly households, mainly those over 50, in France during the last 20 years, by...

The aim of this paper is to present some recent theoretical developments on urban growth. Within this literature, the main issue is the nature of the relation between urban growth and urban size. The later reveals some economic features of cities such as positive and negative externalities or...

The main issue in this paper is cities’ size distribution and urban hierarchy. The aim of the paper is to study whether different regions or countries follow Zipf's law in the long term. By applying this analysis on the Balkan Peninsula, a region which has gone through a major political,...

A long-standing economic literature has delivered rich empirical evidence on the relationship between economic growth and income inequality or urbanisation, since Simon Kuznets’ pioneering work on the inverted U curve hypothesis. This paper explores the relationship between urban inequality...

The aim of this paper is to study the evolution of urban hierarchies and the nature of urban growth processes in Greece from 1951 to 2011 using data provided by the Greek Statistical Authority. The paper delivers three series of results: firstly, when using an administrative definition of the...

This paper applies a rank-size model on panel data. By introducing the spatial dimension of data, it aims in taking into account spatial autocorrelation effects on the Zipf law. We apply Debarsy and Ertur (2010) methodology in order to choose the best specification between three alternative...