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...

In an environment of rapid economic development with rising incomes, escalating motorization, and growing urbanization, it is natural that government policies focus on solving congestion-related problems caused by increased car ownership and usage. The mobility needs of the urban poor have...

This paper presents nine alternative accessibility measures and evaluates their usefulness in explaining population distribution. It first evaluates these measures by using the criterion of maximum explanatory power in standard regression analysis. It then performs non-nested tests on these nine...

One of the by-products of economic reforms is the unprecedented number of floating population from rural to urban areas. These rural migrants have become a new class that experiences "institutionalized exclusion" in their adoptive cities in areas including housing, work, and social entitlements....

Underlying the fact that different tenderers have different preferences on risk-taking, this study investigates the different tenderers' behaviors in one-shot construction bid auctions. Our model extends the preconditions of previous assumption that all tenderers are characterized by neutral...

This paper utilizes a unique county-level dataset to examine technical efficiency and technology gap in China’s agriculture. We classify the counties into four regions with distinctive levels of economic development, and hence production technologies. A meta-frontier analysis is applied to the...