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A Scale-Free Transportation Network Explains the City-Size Distribution

Berliant, Marcus; Watanabe, Hiroki - 2012

Zipf's law is one of the best-known empirical regularities of the city-size distribution. There is extensive research on the subject, where each city is treated symmetrically in terms of the cost of transactions with other cities. Recent developments in network theory facilitate the examination...

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Does the EU have homogeneous urban structure area? The role of agglomeration and the impact of shocks on urban structure

Modica, Marco - 2014

, economic reasons. However, the population is spread across geographic areas in a way that, although continuously changing, is … not possible to define as random. Indeed, countries have faced a strong tendency toward agglomeration, namely population … coefficient, the more even the population of cities in the urban system. There are several potential explanations for variations …

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A Spatial Production Economy Explains Gross Metropolitan Product

Watanabe, Hiroki - 2015

It has long been known that the city-size distributions are fat tailed, drawing the interest of urban economists. In contrast, not much is known about the distribution of GDP at city level (henceforth referred to as gross metropolitan product, GMP). We build a model of the spatial economy that...

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The pan-European population distribution across consistently defined functional urban areas

Schmidheiny, Kurt; Suedekum, Jens - 2015

We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are ?too small? to follow Zipf?s law.

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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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City age and city size

Giesen, Kristian; Suedekum, Jens - 2013

There has been vast interest in the distribution of city sizes in an economy, but this research has largely neglected that cities also differ along another fundamental dimension: age. Using novel data on the foundation dates of more than 10,000 American cities, we find that older cities in the...

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Measuring and modelling internet diffusion using second level domains: The case of Italy

Bonaccorsi, Andrea; Martinelli, Maurizio; Rossi, Cristina; … - 2002

registered by individuals is analysed. The penetration rate over the relevant population of potential adopters is computed at … geographical distribution of Internet is less concentrated than population and income suggesting a diffusive effect. Regression …

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Explaining the size distribution of cities: Extreme economies

Berliant, Marcus; Watanabe, Hiroki - In: Quantitative Economics 6 (2015) 1, pp. 153-187

The empirical regularity known as Zipf's law or the rank-size rule has motivated development of a theoretical literature to explain it. We examine the assumptions on consumer behavior, particularly about their inability to insure against the city-level productivity shocks, implicitly used in...

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Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction: Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda

Christiaensen, Luc; Kanbur, Ravi - 2017

This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment towards secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the hypothesis raises many questions. What exactly is the dichotomy of secondary towns versus big...

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Further analysis of the Zipf's law: Does the rank-size rule really exist?

Nota, Fungisai; Song, Shunfeng - In: Journal of Urban Management 1 (2012) 2, pp. 19-31

Zipf's law has two striking regularities: excellent fit and an exponent close to 1.0. When the exponent equals 1.0, Zipf's law collapses into the rank-size rule. This paper alters the sample size, the truncation point, and the mix of cities in the sample to analyze the Zipf exponent. Our results...

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