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Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 86-100

  Nitsch, Volker ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Meta analysis; Rank size rule; Size distribution of cities; Zipf's law

Indexed keywords

EID: 11244300070     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2004.09.002     Document Type: Article

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