Gibrat's Law for (All) Cities

By Jan Eeckhout. 2004

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Welfare and Trade without Pareto (2014, background): “This demonstration that Gibrat’s Law implies a limiting distribution that is log-normal echoes similar arguments by Sutton (1997) for firms and Eeckhout (2004) for cities.”
City Age and City Size (2014, methodology): “We provide an economic theory for the DPLN distribution of city sizes by extending the seminal approach by Eeckhout (2004) to incorporate endogenous city creation and age heterogeneity across cities.”
Cities, Skills and Regional Change (2014, neutral): “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 ).”
Pareto Models, Top Incomes, and Recent Trends in UK Income Inequality (2017, neutral): “2015, Vermeulen 2014), and city and firm size (Eeckhout 2004; Gabaix 2009, 2016).”
Departures from Gibrat's Law, Discontinuities and City Size Distributions (2007, background): “Consistent with Eeckhout (2004), we find empirically that a log-normal distribution provides an excellent fit for the normalised city size distribution data at a regional scale (Figure 3).”
The empirics of new economic geography (2010, neutral): “To address this issue, Ellison and Glaeser (1997) develop an index of geographical concentration, in which the observed distribution of economic activity within an industry is compared to a null hypothesis of random location (a “dartboard approach”). Importantly, this index controls for the extent t”
Econometric analysis of production networks with dominant units (2020, background): “15Similar Monte Carlo evidence illustrating the truncation sensitivity problem is reported in Table 1-4 of Gabaix and Ibragimov (2011). An interesting theoretical discussion can be found in Eeckhout (2004).”
CENTRAL PLACE T HEORY A ND CITY SIZE DISTRIBUTION (2012, positive): “For why this steady-state distribution should be Zipf’s, see Gabaix (1999); for why it should be log-normal, see Eeckhout (2004).2 See Duranton (2006, 2007) and Rossi-Hansberg and Wright (2007) for full-fledged general equilibrium models that match the empirical city size distribution reasonably…”
Sequential city growth in the us: does age matter? (2013, positive): “Our nonparametric approach, in common with Eeckhout (2004) and González-Val (2010), is based on the same methodology as that developed by Ioannides and Overman (2003), but differs in terms of the data we use.”
On the size distribution of business firms (2008, background): “However, there is a tradition in the economics of income inequality (Champernowne, 1953), industrial organization (Ijiri and Simon, 1977; Sutton, 1997) and size distribution of cities (Gabaix, 1999; Eeckhout, 2004) of models of proportionate growth that generate Pareto upper tails by assuming some v”
A Century of Shocks: The Evolution of the German City Size Distribution 1925-1999 (2008, positive): “Both Eeckhout (2004) and Ioannides and Overman (2003) find evidence for the USA of a more or less size independent mean growth rate and an increasing variance for smaller cities, which can be reconciled with the decreasing Zipf coefficient they find for the USA.”