-economic network theories (e.g. entropy maximization, spatial interaction theory, etc.); (ii) the nature of the analytical relationship … investigates - from a methodological viewpoint - the relationship between network connectivity and the rank-size rule (or Zipf …'s law) in an urban-economic network constellation. After a review of the literature, we address in particular the following …

policies at the European level by integrating network, regional economic and macro-economic impacts. The paper presents the … static analysis, using estimates of trade cost changes due to new infrastructure links, obtained from a transport network … model. By performing a systematic and quantitative analysis of the spatial, network and socio-economic impacts of transport …