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Patterns of crime victimization in Latin America
Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro (contributor);  … - 1999 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001567772
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Patterns of Crime Victimization in Latin America
Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro; Pages, Carmen - 2000
In this paper we draw a profile of the victims of crime in Latin America. We show that--at least for the case of … property crime--the typical victims of crime in Latin America come from rich and middle class households and tend to live in … plausible hypotheses. On the whole, our results imply that urban crime in Latin America is, to an important extent, a reflection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014177761
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Patterns in US urban growth (1790-2000)
González-Val, Rafael; Lanaspa-Santolaria, Luis Fernando - 2013
This paper reconsiders the evolution of the growth of American cities since 1790 in light of new theories of urban growth. Our null hypothesis for long-term growth is random growth. We obtain evidence supporting random growth against the alternative of mean reversion (convergence) in city sizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581479
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Patterns of Crime Victimization in Latin America
Gaviria, Alejandro; Pagés-Serra, Carmen - 1999
In this paper we draw a profile of the victims of crime in Latin America. We show that- at least for the case of … property crime - the typical victims of crime in Latin America come from rich and middle class households and tend to live in … plausible hypotheses. On the whole, our results imply that urban crime in Latin America is, to an important extent, a reflection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327095
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The IOC's midas touch : Summer Olympics and city growth
Nitsch, Volker; Wendland, Nicolai - 2013
Hosting a mega-event is a costly activity of short duration. Still, cities frequently compete to become host of all types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the Summer Olympic Games, on the host city. Applying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009785998
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Gibrat 's law for cities revisited
González-Val, Rafael; Lanaspa-Santolaria, Luis Fernando; … - 2010
The aim of this work is to test empirically the validity of Gibrat's Law in the growth of cities, using data for all the twentieth century of the complete distribution of cities (without any size restrictions) in three countries: the US, Spain and Italy. For this we use different techniques...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012620967
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Market access approach to urban growth
Moon, Yoon Sang - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 42 (2020) 3, pp. 1-32
This paper studies urban growth in Korean cities. First, I document that population growth patterns change over time and that the current population distribution supports random urban growth. I confirm two empirical laws-Zipf's law and Gibrat's law-both of which hold in the period of 1995-2015,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301279
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The rise & fall of urban concentration in britain : zipf, gibrat and gini across two centuries
Lyons, Ronan; Tirindelli, Elisa Maria - 2022
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Historical urban growth in Europe (1300–1800)
González-Val, Rafael - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540823
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Size distributions for all cities : lognormal and q-exponential functions
González-Val, Rafael; Ramos-Gutiérrez, Arturo; Sanz, … - 2011
This paper analyses in detail the features offered by a function which is practically new to Urban Economics, the q-exponential, in describing city size distributions. We highlight two contributions. First, we propose a new and simple procedure for estimating their parameters. Second, and more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544736