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A scale-free transportation network explains the city-size distribution
Berliant, Marcus; Watanabe, Hiroki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Zipf’s law is one of the best-known empirical regularities of the city-size distribution. There is extensive research on the subject, where each city is treated symmetrically in terms of the cost of transactions with other cities. Recent developments in network theory facilitate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368153
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A scale-free transportation network explains the city-size distribution
Berliant, Marcus; Watanabe, Hiroki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Zipf’s law is one of the best-known empirical regularities in urban economics. There is extensive research on the subject, where each city is treated symmetrically in terms of the cost of transactions with other cities. Recent developments in network theory facilitate the examination of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113293
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Productive cities: Sorting, selection, and agglomeration
Behrens, Kristian; Duranton, Gilles; Robert-Nicoud, … - Institut d'Economie et Econométrie, Université de Genève - 2013
agglomeration economies. We develop a model of systems of cities that combines all three elements and suggests interesting … complementarities between them. The model can replicate stylized facts about sorting, agglomeration, and selection in cities. It also … entrepreneurs and firms, or because of agglomeration economies. We develop a model of systems of cities that combines all three …
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