Urban Structure and Growth
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- Esteban Rossi-Hansberg & Mark L. J. Wright, 2007. "Urban Structure and Growth," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 74(2), pages 597-624.
- Esteban Rossi-Hansberg & Mark L. J. Wright, 2003. "Urban structure and growth," Discussion Paper / Institute for Empirical Macroeconomics 141, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
- Esteban Rossi-Hansberg & Mark L. J. Wright, 2006. "Urban structure and growth," Staff Report 381, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
- Esteban Rossi-Hansberg & Mark L.J. Wright, 2005. "Urban Structure and Growth," NBER Working Papers 11262, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
Balanced Growth; Economic Growth; Scale Effects; Size Distribution of Cities; Zipf's Law;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E0 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General
- O4 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
- R0 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GEO-2004-08-02 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-URE-2004-08-02 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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