The aim of this paper is to study the relation between economic development and urban hierarchies?<np pagenum="302"/> evolutions in the Mediterranean from 1960 to 2000. The paper clearly demonstrates that the countries with a higher income per capita (France, Spain, Italy) have a less hierarchical city-size...

A long-standing economic literature has delivered rich empirical evidence on the relationship between economic growth and income inequality or urbanisation, since Simon Kuznets’ pioneering work on the inverted U curve hypothesis. This paper explores the relationship between urban inequality...

This paper applies a rank-size model on panel data. By introducing the spatial dimension of data, it aims in taking into account spatial autocorrelation effects on the Zipf law. We apply Debarsy and Ertur (2010) methodology in order to choose the best specification between three alternative...