Chapter 53 The evolution of city size distributions

Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 2341-2378

  Gabaix, Xavier ^a   Ioannides, Yannis M ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C2; city size distribution; Gibrat's law; Hill estimator; N9; persistence of city size distributions; power laws; R1; random growth; urban growth; urban hierarchy; urban primacy; Zipf regression; Zipf's law

Indexed keywords

EID: 66049142975     PISSN: 15740080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0080(04)80010-5     Document Type: Chapter

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