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Recursive subdivision of urban space and Zipf’s law

Chen, Yanguang; Wang, Jiejing - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 395 (2014) C, pp. 392-404

divided into two parts, four parts, eight parts, and so on, and form a hierarchy with cascade structure. If we rank these …-urban hierarchy complies with Zipf’s law, and the values of the rank-size scaling exponent are very close to 1. The significance of … rank-size rule. Third, it suggests a new way of understanding fractals, Zipf’s law, and spatial organization of urban …

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City Sizes, Housing Costs, and Wealth

Ellis, Luci; Andrews, Dan - Reserve Bank of Australia - 2001

Australia’s household sector appears to hold a greater proportion of its wealth in dwellings than do households in other countries. Average dwelling prices in Australia also appear to be high relative to household income, but dwellings in Australia are not noticeably higher in quality than...

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Comparative Advantage, the Rank-size Rule, and Zipf's Law

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

Using a comprehensive international trade data set we investigate empirical regularities (known as Zipf’s Law or the rank-size rule) for the distribution of the interaction between countries as measured by revealed comparative advantage. Using the recently developed estimator by Gabaix and...

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On City Size Distribution: Evidence from OECD Functional Urban Areas

Veneri, Paolo - Public Governance and Territorial Development … - 2013

An increasing amount of empirical evidence documents that city-size distribution within a country follows a power law, often in the form of Zipf’s law. This paper provides new comparative evidence on city size distribution across OECD countries. It uses a database where urban agglomerations...

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Locating Economic Concentration

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

We analyze the distribution of economic activity across space for different types of activity and different levels of aggregation. Not only is this distribution highly uneven (independently of the type of activity and level of aggregation), it is also remarkably regular regarding its size...

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Comparative Advantage, the Rank-size Rule, and Zipf's Law

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

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Uneven landscapes and the city size distribution

Lee, Sanghoon; Li, Qiang - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010

This paper proposes a new explanation for Zipf’s law often observed in the top tail of city size distribution. We show that Zipf’s law can emerge if city size can be expressed as a product of multiple random factors. Each of the factors need not generate Zipf’s law by itself. The key...

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Uneven landscapes and city size distributions

Lee, Sanghoon; Li, Qiang - In: Journal of Urban Economics 78 (2013) C, pp. 19-29

This paper proposes a new model generating city size distributions that asymptotically follow the log-normal distribution. The log-normal distribution is consistent with Zipf’s law in the top tail, which is known to hold for many countries in different periods. The key feature of our model is...

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Locating Economic Concentration

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

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Chaotic Structure of the BRIC Countries and Turkey’s Stock Market

Günay, Samet - In: International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues 5 (2015) 2, pp. 515-522

In this study, the parameters of chaos are analyzed for the leading emerging stock markets: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Turkey (BRIC-T). As chaos has properties such as nonlinearity, sensitivity to initial conditions, and fractality, we performed different methods to identify the existence...

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