Industry Churning and the Evolution of Cities:Evidence for Germany

In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkablywell in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simplerank-size rule known as Zipf´s law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is thechurning of industries across cities....

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Year of publication:	2007-11-01
Authors:	Findeisen, Sebastian ; Südekum, Jens
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Strukturwandel \| Entwicklung \| Industrieanalyse \| analysis

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Extent:	201728 bytes 27 p. application/pdf
Series:	IZA Discussion Papers IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 3180 (2007)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	O18 - Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses ; R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, and Changes ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; Others ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; GERMANY
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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