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Sobre el tamaño de las ciudades en España. Dos reflexiones y una regularidad empírica
Goerlich, Francisco José; Mas, Matilde - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper proposes two considerations prior to the study of city size and emphasizes their importance in the testing of one of the empirical regularities most widely used by the literature, Zipf’s law. The first one refers to the importance of using a consistent database for analysis. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005055492
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Regional resilience
Lin, Jeffrey - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2012
In this paper, I study long-run population changes across U.S. metropolitan areas. First, I argue that changes over a … long period of time in the geographic distribution of population can be informative about the so-called \resilience" of … regions. Using the censuses of population from1790 to 2010, I find that persistent declines, lasting two decades or more, are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010600549
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Sobre el tamaño de las ciudades en España: Dos reflexiones y una regularidad empírica
Goerlich Gisbert, Goerlich Gisbert Francisco J.; Mas … - Fundación BBVA - 2008
This working paper proposes two considerations prior to the study of city size and emphasizes their importance in the testing of one of the empirical regularities most widely used by the literature, Zipf s law. The first refers to the importance of using a consistent database for analysis. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683560
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Fragmentation, sprawl and economic development.
Ardashev, Grigoriy V. - 2005
part of US metropolitan areas. Metropolitan areas with population between 200,000 and 1,000,000 with higher levels of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429617
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Commute Time in Brazil (1992-2009): Differences Between Metropolitan Areas, by Income Levels and Gender
Pereira, Rafael Henrique Moraes; Schwanen, Tim - Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), … - 2013
(MAs) in the country, than the in the other MAs. Second, workers in the poorest population segment (1st income decile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010858249
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Metropolitan economic growth and spatial dependence: Evidence from a panel of China
Pei, LI - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 3 (2008) 2, pp. 277-295
There are a number of theoretical reasons why cities interact with each other. Such spatial interdependence has been largely ignored by the empirical literature with only a couple of recent papers accounting for such issues in their estimation. This paper takes spatial dependence panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934361
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The metropolitan area as a knee-jerk response to the multilevel governance and its derived national public decisions
DUMITRICĂ, Cătălin Daniel; DINU, Ioana Teodora - In: Theoretical and Applied Economics XVIII(2013) (2013) 6(583), pp. 119-138
The paper objectifies the first part of a larger projects aiming at establishing a public decision-making map pertaining to the negative externalities in the framework of the economic approach of subsidiarity in the multilevel governance (the case of Romania). The first part of the larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011005028
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Métropolisation et polarités intra-urbaines. Le cas de Lyon
Buisson, Marie-Andrée; Mignot, Dominique; … - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine avril (2001) 2, pp. 271-296
Metropolization, namely the concentration of households and activity in the more developped cities, leads to greater spatial differentiation and specialization in the urban area, generating new flows and new urban dysfunctions. Although distance to the centre is still relevant to understand the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011020064
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Factors Associated with Rural Economic Growth: Lessons from the 1980's
Kusmin, Lorin D.; Redman, John M.; Sears, David W. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010922967
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The impact of metropolitan areas on internal migrations in Poland. The case of southern regions
Pietrzak, Michal Bernard; Wilk, Justyna - Instytut Badañ Gospodarczych (IBG) - 2013
know-how as well as create domestic population migration flows. Relocation of human resources regulates both a size and … structure of population, supports regional labour markets, the demand for goods stimulation, etc. The objective of this paper is … southern Polish subregions demonstrate low intensity of intraregional population movements while interregional flows are quite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271726