کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
971627 932369 2008 21 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
On the distribution of city sizes
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
On the distribution of city sizes
چکیده انگلیسی

The city size distribution in many countries is remarkably well described by a Pareto distribution. We derive conditions that standard urban models must satisfy in order to explain this regularity. We show that under general conditions urban models must have (i) a balanced growth path and (ii) a Pareto distribution for the underlying source of randomness. In particular, one of the following combinations can induce a Pareto distribution of city sizes: (i) preferences for different goods follow reflected random walks, and the elasticity of substitution between goods is 1; or (ii) total factor productivities of different goods follow reflected random walks, and increasing returns are equal across goods.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Urban Economics - Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages 177–197
نویسندگان
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