Cities and countries
By: Andrew K. Rose.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11762; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11762.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Growth.; Population.; States, Size of.
Description: "If one ranks cities by population, the rank of a city is inversely related to its size, a well-documented phenomenon known as Zipf's Law.  Further, the growth rate of a city's population is uncorrelated with its size, another well-known characteristic known as Gibrat's Law.  In this paper, I show that both characteristics are true of countries as well as cities; the size distributions of cities and countries are similar.  But theories that explain the size-distribution of cities do not obviously apply in explaining the size-distribution of countries.  The similarity of city- and country-size distributions is an interesting riddle"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
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