Explaining the size distribution of cities: extreme economies

DOI10.3982/QE42MaRDI QIDQ4586244zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marcus Berliant, Hiroki Watanabe

Publication date 12 September 2018

Published in Quantitative Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3982/qe42

zbMATH Keywords

extreme value theoryGibrat's lawsize distribution of citiesZipf's law

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extreme value theory; extremal stochastic processes (60G70) Consumer behavior, demand theory (91B42) Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10)

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