González-Val, Rafael; Lanaspa, Luis; Sanz, Fernando - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2012
The aim of this work is to test empirically the validity of Gibrat’s law on the growth of cities, using data on the complete distribution of cities from three countries (the US, Spain and Italy) for the entire twentieth century. In order to achieve this, we use different techniques. First,...