On the parametric description of the French, German, Italian and Spanish city size distributions
Author
Abstract
Suggested Citation
Download full text from publisher
Other versions of this item:
- Miguel Puente-Ajovín & Arturo Ramos, 2015. "On the parametric description of the French, German, Italian and Spanish city size distributions," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 54(2), pages 489-509, March.
References listed on IDEAS
- Giesen, Kristian & Suedekum, Jens, 2014.
"City age and city size,"
European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 193-208.
- Südekum, Jens & Giesen, Kristian, 2013. "City Age and City Size," VfS Annual Conference 2013 (Duesseldorf): Competition Policy and Regulation in a Global Economic Order 79996, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
- Giesen, Kristian & Suedekum, Jens, 2013. "City age and city size," DICE Discussion Papers 120, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE).
- Jan Eeckhout, 2004. "Gibrat's Law for (All) Cities," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 94(5), pages 1429-1451, December.
- Kristian GIESEN & Jens SÜDEKUM, 2012. "The French Overall City Size Distribution," Region et Developpement, Region et Developpement, LEAD, Universite du Sud - Toulon Var, vol. 36, pages 107-126.
- Ramos, Arturo & Sanz-Gracia, Fernando & González-Val, Rafael, 2013.
"A new framework for the US city size distribution: Empirical evidence and theory,"
MPRA Paper
52190, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Rafael González-Val & Arturo Ramos & Fernando Sanz-Gracia, 2014. "A new framework for US city size distribution: Empirical evidence and theory," ERSA conference papers ersa14p633, European Regional Science Association.
- Gilles Duranton, 2007. "Urban Evolutions: The Fast, the Slow, and the Still," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 97(1), pages 197-221, March.
- Hernán D. Rozenfeld & Diego Rybski & Xavier Gabaix & Hernán A. Makse, 2011.
"The Area and Population of Cities: New Insights from a Different Perspective on Cities,"
American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 101(5), pages 2205-2225, August.
- Hernán D. Rozenfeld & Diego Rybski & Xavier Gabaix & Hernán A. Makse, 2009. "The Area and Population of Cities: New Insights from a Different Perspective on Cities," NBER Working Papers 15409, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Reed, William J., 2001. "The Pareto, Zipf and other power laws," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 74(1), pages 15-19, December.
- Ioannides, Yannis M. & Overman, Henry G., 2003.
"Zipf's law for cities: an empirical examination,"
Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 33(2), pages 127-137, March.
- Y Ioannides & Henry Overman, 2000. "Zipfs Law for Cities: An Empirical Examination," CEP Discussion Papers dp0484, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
- Overman, Henry G. & Ioannides, Yannis, 2000. "Zipf's law for cities: an empirical examination," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 20136, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
- Ioannides, Yannis Menelaos & Overman, Henry G., 2003. "Zipf’s law for cities : an empirical examination," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 583, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
- Ron Shachar & Barry Nalebuff, 2004. "Verifying the Solution from a Nonlinear Solver: A Case Study: Comment," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 94(1), pages 382-390, March.
- Ioannides, Yannis & Skouras, Spyros, 2013. "US city size distribution: Robustly Pareto, but only in the tail," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 73(1), pages 18-29.
- Duncan Black & Vernon Henderson, 2003.
"Urban evolution in the USA,"
Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 3(4), pages 343-372, October.
- Duncan Black and Vernon Henderson, 1998. "Urban Evolution in the USA," Working Papers 98-21, Brown University, Department of Economics.
- Reed, William J., 2003. "The Pareto law of incomes—an explanation and an extension," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 319(C), pages 469-486.
- Giesen, Kristian & Zimmermann, Arndt & Suedekum, Jens, 2010. "The size distribution across all cities - Double Pareto lognormal strikes," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 68(2), pages 129-137, September.
- William J. Reed, 2002. "On the Rank‐Size Distribution for Human Settlements," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 42(1), pages 1-17, February.
- Rafael González-Val & Arturo Ramos & Fernando Sanz-Gracia & María Vera-Cabello, 2015.
"Size distributions for all cities: Which one is best?,"
Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 94(1), pages 177-196, March.
- González-Val, Rafael & Ramos, Arturo & Sanz, Fernando & Vera-Cabello, María, 2013. "Size Distributions for All Cities: Which One is Best?," MPRA Paper 44314, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Rafael Gonz�lez-Val & Arturo Ramos & Fernando Sanz-Gracia, 2013.
"The accuracy of graphs to describe size distributions,"
Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(17), pages 1580-1585, November.
- González-Val, Rafael & Ramos, Arturo & Sanz-Gracia, Fernando, 2013. "The accuracy of graphs to describe size distributions," MPRA Paper 48577, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Singh, S K & Maddala, G S, 1976. "A Function for Size Distribution of Incomes," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 44(5), pages 963-970, September.
- B. D. McCullough & H. D. Vinod, 2003. "Verifying the Solution from a Nonlinear Solver: A Case Study," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 93(3), pages 873-892, June.
- Anderson, Gordon & Ge, Ying, 2005. "The size distribution of Chinese cities," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 35(6), pages 756-776, November.
- David M. Drukker & Vince Wiggins, 2004. "Verifying the Solution from a Nonlinear Solver: A Case Study: Comment," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 94(1), pages 397-399, March.
- González-Val, Rafael & Lanaspa, Luis & Sanz-Gracia, Fernando, 2013.
"Gibrat’s law for cities, growth regressions and sample size,"
Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 118(2), pages 367-369.
- González-Val, Rafael & Lanaspa, Luis & Sanz, Fernando, 2012. "Gibrat’s law for cities, growth regressions and sample size," MPRA Paper 42615, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- B. D. McCullough & H. D. Vinod, 2004.
"Verifying the Solution from a Nonlinear Solver: A Case Study: Reply,"
American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 94(1), pages 400-406, March.
- B. D. McCullough & H. D. Vinod, 2004. "Verifying the Solution from a Nonlinear Solver: A Case Study: Reply," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 94(1), pages 391-396, March.
- Soo, Kwok Tong, 2005.
"Zipf's Law for cities: a cross-country investigation,"
Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 35(3), pages 239-263, May.
- Kwok Tong Soo, 2004. "Zipfs Law for Cities: A Cross Country Investigation," CEP Discussion Papers dp0641, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
- Soo, Kwok Tong, 2004. "Zipf's law for cities: a cross country investigation," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 19947, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
Citations
Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
Cited by:
- Zora Živanović & Branka Tošić & Teodora Nikolić & Dragica Gatarić, 2019. "Urban System in Serbia—The Factor in the Planning of Balanced Regional Development," Sustainability, MDPI, Open Access Journal, vol. 11(15), pages 1-1, August.
- Miguel Puente-Ajovín & Arturo Ramos & Fernando Sanz-Gracia, 2020. "Is there a universal parametric city size distribution? Empirical evidence for 70 countries," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 65(3), pages 727-741, December.
- Gualandi, Stefano & Toscani, Giuseppe, 2019. "Size distribution of cities: A kinetic explanation," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 524(C), pages 221-234.
- Massing, Till & Puente-Ajovín, Miguel & Ramos, Arturo, 2020. "On the parametric description of log-growth rates of cities’ sizes of four European countries and the USA," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 551(C).
- Luckstead, Jeff & Devadoss, Stephen & Danforth, Diana, 2017. "The size distributions of all Indian cities," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 474(C), pages 237-249.
- Akhundjanov, Sherzod B. & Devadoss, Stephen & Luckstead, Jeff, 2017. "Size distribution of national CO2 emissions," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 182-193.
- Su, Hsuan-Li, 2020. "On the city size distribution: A finite mixture interpretation," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 116(C).
- Luckstead, Jeff & Devadoss, Stephen, 2017. "Pareto tails and lognormal body of US cities size distribution," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 465(C), pages 573-578.
- Puente-Ajovin, Miguel & Ramos, Arturo, 2015. "An improvement over the normal distribution for log-growth rates of city sizes: Empirical evidence for France, Germany, Italy and Spain," MPRA Paper 67471, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Ramos, Arturo & Sanz-Gracia, Fernando, 2015. "US city size distribution revisited: Theory and empirical evidence," MPRA Paper 64051, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Calderín-Ojeda, Enrique, 2016. "The distribution of all French communes: A composite parametric approach," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 450(C), pages 385-394.
- Arturo, Ramos, 2019. "Have the log-population processes stationary and independent increments? Empirical evidence for Italy, Spain and the USA along more than a century," MPRA Paper 93562, University Library of Munich, Germany.
Most related items
These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.- Ramos, Arturo & Sanz-Gracia, Fernando & González-Val, Rafael, 2013.
"A new framework for the US city size distribution: Empirical evidence and theory,"
MPRA Paper
52190, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Rafael González-Val & Arturo Ramos & Fernando Sanz-Gracia, 2014. "A new framework for US city size distribution: Empirical evidence and theory," ERSA conference papers ersa14p633, European Regional Science Association.
- Ramos, Arturo & Sanz-Gracia, Fernando, 2015. "US city size distribution revisited: Theory and empirical evidence," MPRA Paper 64051, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Arturo Ramos, 2017. "Are the log-growth rates of city sizes distributed normally? Empirical evidence for the USA," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 53(3), pages 1109-1123, November.
- Arturo, Ramos, 2019. "Have the log-population processes stationary and independent increments? Empirical evidence for Italy, Spain and the USA along more than a century," MPRA Paper 93562, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Rafael González-Val & Arturo Ramos & Fernando Sanz-Gracia & María Vera-Cabello, 2015.
"Size distributions for all cities: Which one is best?,"
Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 94(1), pages 177-196, March.
- González-Val, Rafael & Ramos, Arturo & Sanz, Fernando & Vera-Cabello, María, 2013. "Size Distributions for All Cities: Which One is Best?," MPRA Paper 44314, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Giesen, Kristian & Suedekum, Jens, 2014.
"City age and city size,"
European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 193-208.
- Südekum, Jens & Giesen, Kristian, 2013. "City Age and City Size," VfS Annual Conference 2013 (Duesseldorf): Competition Policy and Regulation in a Global Economic Order 79996, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
- Giesen, Kristian & Suedekum, Jens, 2013. "City age and city size," DICE Discussion Papers 120, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE).
- Rafael González-Val, 2019.
"US city-size distribution and space,"
Spatial Economic Analysis, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(3), pages 283-300, July.
- Rafael González-Val, 2017. "City size distribution and space," Working Papers 2017/18, Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB).
- González-Val, Rafael, 2018. "US city size distribution and space," MPRA Paper 91533, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Ramos, Arturo, 2015. "Log-growth distributions of US city sizes and non-Lévy processes," MPRA Paper 66561, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Rafael González‐Val, 2019.
"Historical urban growth in Europe (1300–1800),"
Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 98(2), pages 1115-1136, April.
- Rafael González-Val, 2016. "Historical urban growth in Europe (1300–1800)," Working Papers 2016/8, Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB).
- Rafael, González-Val, 2017. "Historical urban growth in Europe (1300–1800)," MPRA Paper 80475, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Arshad, Sidra & Hu, Shougeng & Ashraf, Badar Nadeem, 2019. "Zipf’s law, the coherence of the urban system and city size distribution: Evidence from Pakistan," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 513(C), pages 87-103.
- Ramos, Arturo, 2015. "Are the log-growth rates of city sizes normally distributed? Empirical evidence for the US," MPRA Paper 65584, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Duranton, Gilles & Puga, Diego, 2014.
"The Growth of Cities,"
Handbook of Economic Growth, in: Philippe Aghion & Steven Durlauf (ed.),Handbook of Economic Growth, edition 1, volume 2, chapter 5, pages 781-853,
Elsevier.
- Gilles Duranton, 2013. "The Growth of U.S. Cities," Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine, Armand Colin, vol. 0(5), pages 857-876.
- Gilles Duranton & Diego Puga, 2013. "The Growth of Cities," Working Papers wp2013_1308, CEMFI.
- Duranton, Gilles & Puga, Diego, 2013. "The growth of cities," CEPR Discussion Papers 9590, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Wu, Jian-Xin & He, Ling-Yun, 2017.
"How do Chinese cities grow? A distribution dynamics approach,"
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 470(C), pages 105-118.
- Jian-Xin Wu & Ling-Yun He, 2016. "How do Chinese cities grow? A distribution dynamics approach," Papers 1612.02657, arXiv.org.
- Kristian Giesen & Jens Suedekum, 2012.
"The size distribution across all “cities”: a unifying approach,"
Working Papers
2012/2, Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB).
- Kristian Giesen & Jens Suedekum, 2012. "The Size Distribution Across All 'Cities': A Unifying Approach," SERC Discussion Papers 0122, Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE.
- Kristian Giesen & Jens Suedekum, 2012. "The size distribution across all 'cities': A unifying approach," ERSA conference papers ersa12p106, European Regional Science Association.
- Kristian Giesen & Jens Suedekum, 2012. "The Size Distribution across all "Cities": A Unifying Approach," CESifo Working Paper Series 3730, CESifo.
- Giesen, Kristian & Suedekum, Jens, 2012. "The Size Distribution Across All "Cities": A Unifying Approach," IZA Discussion Papers 6352, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Giesen, Kristian & Suedekum, Jens, 2012. "The size distribution across all "Cities": a unifying approach," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 59252, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
- Miguel Puente-Ajovín & Arturo Ramos & Fernando Sanz-Gracia, 2020. "Is there a universal parametric city size distribution? Empirical evidence for 70 countries," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 65(3), pages 727-741, December.
- Miguel Puente-Ajovín & Arturo Ramos & Fernando Sanz-Gracia, 0. "Is there a universal parametric city size distribution? Empirical evidence for 70 countries," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 0, pages 1-15.
- Devadoss, Stephen & Luckstead, Jeff, 2015. "Growth process of U.S. small cities," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 135(C), pages 12-14.
- Massing, Till & Puente-Ajovín, Miguel & Ramos, Arturo, 2020. "On the parametric description of log-growth rates of cities’ sizes of four European countries and the USA," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 551(C).
- Giorgio Fazio & Marco Modica, 2015. "Pareto Or Log-Normal? Best Fit And Truncation In The Distribution Of All Cities," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 55(5), pages 736-756, November.
- Valente J. Matlaba & Mark J. Holmes & Philip McCann & Jacques Poot, 2013.
"A Century Of The Evolution Of The Urban System In Brazil,"
Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 25(3), pages 129-151, November.
- Valente J. Matlaba & Mark Holmes & Philip McCann & Jacques Poot, 2011. "A Century of the Evolution of the Urban System in Brazil," Working Papers in Economics 11/12, University of Waikato.
More about this item
Keywords
European city size distributions; population thresholds; lower and upper tails; new statistical distribution;JEL classification:
- C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Estimation: General
- C16 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Econometric and Statistical Methods; Specific Distributions
- R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2014-04-18 (Microeconomic European Issues)
Statistics
Access and download statisticsCorrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:55285. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: (Joachim Winter). General contact details of provider: http://edirc.repec.org/data/vfmunde.html .
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
If CitEc recognized a reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.