The Evolution of City Size Distributions

By Xavier Gabaix, Yannis M. Ioannides. 2004

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Questioning Polycentric Development and its Effects. Issues of Definition and Measurement for the Italian NUTS-2 Regions (2012, unknown): “In particular, they have been used to estimate the Zipf’s Law, the well‐known empirical evidence which holds if β equals ‐1: in this case, the size‐distribution of cities follows a statistical power distribution (Gabaix and Ioannides, 2004).”
Cities, Skills and Regional Change (2014, background): “Gibrat's law has received a great deal of recent interest because of its connection with Zipf's law, the claim being that the size distribution of cities in most countries is well approximated by a Pareto distribution (G abaix , 1999 , G abaix and I oannides , 2004 ; E eckhout , 2004 ).”
Spatial Science and Network Science: Review and Outcomes of a Complex Relationship (2014, methodology): “In geography, Gibrat's model was applied to systems of cities (Robson, 1973; Pumain, 1982) as well as to urban economics (Gabaix and Ioannides, 2004) to examine the evolution of urban growth through city size distributions.”
The Area and Population of Cities: New Insights from a Different Perspective on Cities (2010, unknown): “Therefore, MSAs have been constructed only for the 276 most populated cities in the USA, and the corresponding Zipf’s law has been documented only for the upper tail of the distribution (Gabaix and Ioannides 2004; Soo 2005).”
The Economic Performance of European Cities and City Regions: Myths and Realities (2013, background): “Second, urban size distributions frequently display patterns which closely correspond to Zipf’s law (Gabaix, 1999a, 1999b), and in particular these distributions tend to hold well below the very upper tail of the city-size distribution (Gabaix & Ioannides, 2004).”
Zipf's Law for Cities in the Regions and the Country (2011, unknown): “Neither Gabaix and Ioannides (2004) nor Nitsch (2005) mention any study that systematically addresses intra-national city size distributions.”
The city size distribution debate: Resolution for US urban regions and megalopolitan areas (2012, methodology): “random growth model fails (Gabaix, 1999; Gabaix and Ioannides, 2003).”
Spatial scaling of stable night lights (2011, background): “…challenges to the validity of Zipf's Law (e.g. Gan et al., 2006; Nitsch, 2005), numerous examples have been found for city size distributions within specific countries over the past 100 years in which the law appears to hold remarkably well (see Gabaix et al., 2004 and Pumain, 2004) for summaries).”
A Century of Shocks: The Evolution of the German City Size Distribution 1925-1999 (2008, unknown): “…over time in our data set, we follow the suggestion made by Gabaix and Ioannides (2004) who state: ”Hence one can imagine that the next generation of city size evolution empirics could draw from the sophisticated econometric literature on unit roots” (Gabaix and Ioannides, 2004, pp. 20).”
Departures from Gibrat's Law, Discontinuities and City Size Distributions (2007, background): “If neither of these conditions is satisfied, and a city is large, it will grow more slowly than average in the future and the opposite would be true for small cities (Gabaix and Ioannides, 2004).”
Why do regions develop and change?: the challenge for geography and economics (2011, background): “The frames of reference employed to think about such processes are mostly borrowed from the ‘long view backward’, that is, to how the now-developed economies generated their urban systems at the time they developed (Fujita et al., 1999; Gabaix and Ioannides, 2004).”
Why Has CEO Pay Increased so Much (2008, unknown): “The empirical evidence and the theory on Zipf’s law for firm size suggests α ' 1 (Axtell 2001, Fujiwara et al. 2004, Gabaix 1999, 2006, Gabaix and Ioannides 2004, Ijiri and Simon 1977, Luttmer 2005).”