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Is Economic Integration a Historical Shock to City-size Distribution?

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  • Sorhun Engin

    (Assoc. Prof., Istanbul 29 Mayis University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Economics)

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Based on the assumption that the economic integration process contributes, via market reforms, to the dynamics of the space distribution in candidate countries, this study examines (i) whether agglomeration forces or dispersion forces are dominant; (ii) whether EU-integration causes a structural break to the space distribution over time; (iii) whether EU-integration makes the city-size distribution more even or uneven in eight eastern European Union members (EU–8). To carry out the analysis, the Ziwot-Andrew and Cusum Square tests are used to detect structural breaks; the ARDL Bound test is used to reveal the interaction between long-run and short-run equilibrium; and the Granger test is used to determine the direction of the causality among the variables. The main results are: the integration with the EU (i) caused a structural break to the city-size distribution, (ii) made the city-size distribution more uneven and (iii) stimulated the agglomerating forces over the spreading forces in the EU–8.

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  • Sorhun Engin, 2018. "Is Economic Integration a Historical Shock to City-size Distribution?," Comparative Economic Research, Sciendo, vol. 21(1), pages 83-100, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:coecre:v:21:y:2018:i:1:p:83-100:n:5
    DOI: 10.2478/cer-2018-0005
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    Keywords

    City-size distribution; rank-size rule; Zipf’s Law; EU integration; new member and candidate countries; ARDL; Bound test; Granger causality test;
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    JEL classification:

    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
    • R15 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Econometric and Input-Output Models; Other Methods

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