Zipf's Law for Cities: On a New Testing Procedure
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Zipf 's Law; Pareto distribution; Monte Carlo study; Minimum variance unbiased estimator; Developing countries;NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ECM-2009-12-05 (Econometrics)
- NEP-GEO-2009-12-05 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-URE-2009-12-05 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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