The aim of this work is to test empirically the validity of Gibrat’s Law in the growth of cities, using data for all the twentieth century of the complete distribution of cities (without any size restrictions) in three countries: the US, Spain and Italy. On considering the distribution of...

The literature that studies the effects that the government activity produces in the location decisions of the economic agents is relatively limited. In this work we introduce the public sector in Krugman's core-periphery model in order to contribute to solve this deficiency. The government...

In this paper we analyse the evolution of the Spanish urban structure during the period 1900-1999. The methodology employed allows us to obtain two main results. First, that this evolution has not been homogenous, with a divergent pattern of growht being identified for the period running from...

The gravity equation has been frequently and successfully used for nearly thirty years to further understanding of the determinants of bilateral trade flows across countries and, subsequently, to analyze commercial policy measures. A maintained hypothesis by the applied literature on...

The aim of this work is to test empirically the validity of Gibrat’s law on the growth of cities, using data on the complete distribution of cities from three countries (the US, Spain and Italy) for the entire twentieth century. In order to achieve this, we use different techniques. First,...

This paper analyzes the persistence of the shock caused by the American Civil War on the relative city size distribution of the United States. Our fi…ndings suggest that the effects of this shock were permanent, which sharply contrasts with previous results regarding World War II for Japanese...