On the Distribution of City Sizes

By J. C. Cordoba. 2003

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Zipf's law for cities: a cross-country investigation (2005, unknown): “These papers seek to address some of the issues involved in testing the rank-size-rule, such as the appropriate tests and methods.”
Cities, Skills and Regional Change (2014, methodology): “G abaix (1999) , E eckhout (2004) , and C ordoba (2008) used this regularity to explain the size distribution of cities.”
The Area and Population of Cities: New Insights from a Different Perspective on Cities (2010, unknown): “2004; Eeckhout 2004; Duranton 2006, 2007; Rossi-Hansberg and Wright 2007; Córdoba 2008): cities follow a proportional growth process where the distribution of the percentage growth rate is the same for small and large cities.”
Innovation by entrants and incumbents (2015, unknown): “…despite being highly tractable and only a small deviation from the textbook Schumpeterian model, also generates a realistic rm size distribution (with a Pareto tail as in Luttmer (2007) for rm sizes, Gabaix (1999) and Cordoba (2008) for cities, or Benhabib et al. (2010) for wealth distribution).”
The city size distribution debate: Resolution for US urban regions and megalopolitan areas (2012, background): “This ‘‘Law of Proportionate Effect’’ produces an outcome in which the logarithms of S are distributed according to the normal distribution, i.e. a lognormal distribution (Aitchison and Brown, 1957; Gibrat, 1931).”
Some foundations for Zipf's law: Product proliferation and local spillovers (2006, background): “Pushing the argument further, Córdoba (2003) proves that in a statistical sense, Zipf’s law must be the outcome of Gibrat’s law.”
Alternative Explanations of Hierarchical Differentiation in Urban Systems (2006, background): “The economic models that try to produce a rank size distribution (Cordoba, 2003, Gabaix and Ioannides, 2003, Fujita, 2000) are merely theoretical and have not been empirically tested.”