On the distribution of city sizes

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 177-197

  Córdoba, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced growth; Cities; City size distribution; Multisectorial models; Pareto distribution; Rank Size Rule; Urban growth; Zipf's Law

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249018987     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2007.01.005     Document Type: Article

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