Some foundations for Zipf's law: Product proliferation and local spillovers

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 542-563

  Duranton, Gilles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

City size distribution; Endogenous growth; Simon's model; Zipf's law

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 33745943649     PISSN: 01660462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2006.03.008     Document Type: Article

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