Zipf's law for cities: An empirical examintion

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 127-137

  Ioannides, Yannis M ^a   Overman, Henry G ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Estimation of Brownian motion; Gibrat's Law; Urban growth; Zipf's Law

Indexed keywords

METROPOLITAN AREA; SIZE EFFECT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; URBAN GROWTH;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037370591     PISSN: 01660462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-0462(02)00006-6     Document Type: Article

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