A Generalized Gibrat's Law

By J. C. Cordoba. 2008

63 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• 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).”
• Growth in a Cross-section of Cities: Location, Increasing Returns or Random Growth? (2015, background): “Following Davis and Weinstein (2002), these theoretical explanations can be grouped into three main theories: the existence of increasing returns to scale, the importance of locational fundamentals and the absence of both (random growth).”