Fazio, Giorgio; Modica, Marco - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
Traditionally, it is assumed that the population size of cities in a country follows a Pareto distribution. This … the Pareto distribution may t reasonably well when the data is truncated at the upper tail, i.e. for the largest cities of … Pareto tail from the tail of a log-normal and, in turn, identifying the city size distribution as a false or a weak Pareto …