Giesen, Kristian (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2009
The salient rank-size rule known as Zipf's law is not only satisfied for Germany's national urban hierarchy, but also … Gibrat's law, we should observe Zipf at both the regional and the national level. This theory has never been addressed … (1999) that Zipf's law follows from a stochastic growth process. In particular, Gabaix shows that if the regions follow …