Luckstead, Jeff; Devadoss, Stephen - In: Economics Letters 125 (2014) 2, pp. 182-186
We examine whether the size distribution and the growth process of the world’s largest cities follow Zipf’s law and Gibrat’s law. The parametric results of the size distribution analysis reject Zipf’s law for all sample sizes and also show the Zipf exponent systematically declines as the...