Some Empirical Regularities of Spatial Economies: A Relationship between Industrial Location and City Size

The spatial distribution of industries and population is quite lumpy, and this lumpiness varies across industries. Nevertheless, we show using Japanese data for metropolitan areas that the locations of both industries and population are linked by surprisingly simple and persistent patterns. In addition, we show mathematically that these patterns are in turn closely related to the well known Rank-Size Rule, as applied to metropolitan areas.

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Year of publication:	2002-09
Authors:	Mori, Tomoya ; Nishikimi, Koji ; Smith, Tony E.
Institutions:	Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University
Subject:	agglomeration \| hierarchy principle \| rank-size rule \| Zipf's Law

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	KIER Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 551 38 pages
Classification:	R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, and Changes ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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