Does the ranking of Covid-19 cases by municipality follow Zipf’s law (i.e. an estimated Pareto exponent of one)? This note tries to answer this question using daily data from Brazil for the Mar 30, 2020 -Oct 22, 2021 period. We used a Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML) estimator and the...

Following an idea proposed by Deterding (2006) for the English version of 'The North Wind and the Sun', this paper compares the standard Spanish version of that fable with an alternative text which corresponds to another fable, 'The Boy who Cried Wolf'. The comparison is based on the phonetic...

Following an idea proposed by Deterding (2006) for the English version of “The North Wind and the Sun”, this paper compares the standard Spanish version of that fable with an alternative text which corresponds to another fable, “The Boy who Cried Wolf”. The comparison is based on the...

This paper analyses the evolution of the European urban system from a long-term perspective (from 1300 to 1800) considering the historical data set of Bairoch et al. (1988). Using the method recently proposed by Clauset et al. (2009), a Pareto-type city size distribution (power law) is rejected...

We exploit the bilateral and skill dimensions from recent data sets of international migration to test for the existence of Zipf's and Gibrat's Laws in the context of aggregate and high-skilled international immigration and emigration using graphical, parametric and non-parametric analysis. The...