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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Brakman, Steven
• Garretsen, Harry
• Van Marrewijk, Charles
• Van Den Berg, Marianne

Titel

The Return of Zipf: Towards a Further Understanding of the Rank-Size Distribution

Ist Teil von

• Journal of regional science, 1999-02, Vol.39 (1), p.183-213

Ort / Verlag

Boston, USA and Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

1999

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We offer a general‐equilibrium economic approach to Zipf's Law or, more generally, the rank‐size distribution-the striking empirical regularity concerning the size distribution of cities. We provide some further understanding of Zipf's Law by incorporating negative feedbacks (congestion) in a popular model of economic geography and international trade. This model allows the powers of agglomeration and spreading to be in long‐run equilibrium, which enhances our understanding of the existence of a rank‐size distribution of cities.