Lee, Sanghoon; Li, Qiang - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010
This paper proposes a new explanation for Zipf’s law often observed in the top tail of city size distribution. We show that Zipf’s law can emerge if city size can be expressed as a product of multiple random factors. Each of the factors need not generate Zipf’s law by itself. The key...