The emergence of Zipf's law in a system of cities: an agent-based simulation approach

DOI10.1016/J.JEDC.2006.08.002MaRDI QIDQ1027376zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yuri Mansury, László Gulyás

Publication date 1 July 2009

Published in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2006.08.002

zbMATH Keywords

complex systemspower lawsspatial agent based models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spatial models in economics (91B72)

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