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The size distribution across all "cities": A unifying approach
Giesen, Kristian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012
In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether cities are administratively defined Census places or economically defined area clusters. We then consider an economic model...
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The size distribution across all "cities": A unifying approach
Giesen, Kristian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012
In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether cities are administratively defined Census places or economically defined area clusters. We then consider an economic model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282153
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Zipf's Law for Integrated Economies
Bowen, Harry P.; Munandar, Haris; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2005
We first demonstrate that, within a fully integrated economy (FIE) in which there is free mobility of goods and factors, each FIE member's share of total FIE output will equal its shares of the total FIE stock of each productive factor. This equal-share property implies that, if economic...
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Zipf's law for integrated economies
Bowen, Harry P.; Munandar, Haris; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002851637
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The size distribution of US banks and credit unions
Goddard, John A.; Liu, Hong; McKillop, Donal G.; … - In: International journal of the economics of business 21 (2014) 1, pp. 139-156
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Heavy tailed but not Zipf : firm and establishment size in the United States
Kondo, Illenin O.; Lewis, Logan T.; Stella, Andrea - In: Journal of applied econometrics 38 (2023) 5, pp. 767-785
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The size of U.S. metropolitan areas
Humann, McKenzie; Rappaport, Jordan - 2021
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Net promoter score : a conceptual analysis
Mandal, Pratap Chandra - In: International journal of management concepts and … 8 (2014) 4, pp. 209-219
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Foreign Investment in Farmland No Low-hanging Fruit
Chatterjee, Claire Schaffnit - eSocialSciences - 2012
A key driver of foreign investment in land, food security is a challenge mankind has been confronted with in various times and places. Wherever human societies have developed, growing needs have led to increasing arable land, and when land has been limited by nature or wars, food shortages...
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Between global and local hierarchies: population management in the first half of the tewntieth century
Melegh, Attila - In: Demográfia English Edition 53 (2010) 5, pp. 51-77
This study proposes new ways of comparing discourses on population and argues that these discourses concern both … reveals how we can understand the comparative politics of population management. We aim to establish some of the basic types … patterns of population policy, which cannot be sufficiently explained by demographic processes or the specific ideologies of …
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