Lugo, Igor; Martínez-Mekler, Gustavo - In: Journal of shipping and trade 7 (2022), pp. 1-16
This paper explores theoretically the formation of a system of cities in which ports affect the spatial location and … of the model shows the emergence of the classical city-size distributions in which the number of ports and their layout … rise to cities at a long distance from a small number of ports. The size of the cities shows a positive correlations with …