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Patterns in US urban growth (1790-2000)

González-Val, Rafael; Lanaspa-Santolaria, Luis Fernando - 2013

This paper reconsiders the evolution of the growth of American cities since 1790 in light of new theories of urban growth. Our null hypothesis for long-term growth is random growth. We obtain evidence supporting random growth against the alternative of mean reversion (convergence) in city sizes...

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Sequential city growth in the US : does age matter?

González-Val, Rafael; Sánchez-Vidal, María; … - 2013

We provide empirical evidence of the dynamics of city size distribution for the whole of the twentieth century in U.S. cities and metropolitan areas. We focus our analysis on the new cities that were created during the period of analysis. The main contribution of this paper, therefore, is the...

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History and urban primacy : the effect of the Spanish reconquista on Muslim cities

Cuberes, David; González-Val, Rafael - 2013 - This version: February 2013

This paper aims to study the effect of a major historical event on the Spanish city size distribution, the Spanish Reconquista. This was a long military campaign that aimed to expel Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula. The process started in the early 1200s and ended around 1500, when the entire...

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Agglomeration, congestion, and regional unemployment disparities

Zierahn, Ulrich - 2011

Regional labor markets are characterized by huge disparities of unemployment rates. Models of the New Economic Geography explain how disparities of regional goods markets endogenously arise but usually assume full employment. This paper discusses regional unemployment disparities by introducing...

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Urban spatial structure and economic growth in Spanish metropolitan areas : 1992-2008

Alamá, Luisa; Roig-Casanova, Marta; Forte, Anabel; … - 2011

There is a large literature on the existence of agglomeration economies, as shown in the surveys by Moomaw (1983) or Gerking (1993). The benefits of these economies arise from multiple sources, but some negative externalities might also emerge. Within the hierarchical urban system, cities at...

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A dynamic spatial model of rural-urban transformation with public goods

Biller, Dan; Andrés, Luis; Cuberes, David - 2014

In this paper we develop a dynamic model that explains the pattern of population and production allocation in an economy with an urban location and a rural one. Agglomeration economies make urban dwellers benefit from a larger population living in the city and urban firms become more productive...

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Infrastructure's long-lived impact on urban development : theory and empirics

Grimes, Arthur L.; Apatov, Eyal; Lutchmann, Larissa; … - 2014

We analyse the impacts that infrastructure provision has on long run urban development. The topic is of major importance to policy-makers when deciding whether or not to invest in major infrastructure projects. The analysis helps policy-makers to understand the intended, and potentially...

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The productive city needs both : localization and urbanization economies across spatial scales in the city

Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Lundblad, Joakim - 2015 - This version 2015-01-16

This paper revisits a classical inquiry by addressing the question of localization and urbanization economies. We … level within cities, urbanization grow stronger at larger spatial scales. These results provide some support for that … urbanization economies and localization economies not only co-exist but also co-depend. …

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Does the EU have a homogeneous urban structure area? : the role of agglomeration and the impact of (hypothetical) shocks on the EU urban structure

Modica, Marco - 2014

test for stationarity. Indeed, the Zipf coefficient can be seen as a measure of urbanization: the larger the value of the …

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What makes cities bigger and richer? : new evidence from 1990 - 2000 in the US

González-Val, Rafael - 2011

This paper analyses the determinants of growth of American cities, understood as growth of the population or of per capita income, from 1990 to 2000. This empirical analysis uses data from all cities with more than 25,000 inhabitants in the year 2000 (1154 cities). The results show that while a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548599

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