This paper presents a theoretical approach to solve the main problems faced to explain the relationship between aggregate economic growth and the urban structure. The most significant conclusion reached is that there is a theoretical relationship between aggregate economic growth and urban...

This paper analyzes the persistence of the shock caused by the American Civil War on the relative city size distribution of the United States. Our fi…ndings suggest that the effects of this shock were permanent, which sharply contrasts with previous results regarding World War II for Japanese...

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...