Cities and Countries
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- Andrew K. Rose, 2005. "Cities and Countries," NBER Working Papers 11762, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
Distribution; Zipf; Gibrat; Empirical; Mean; Growth; Rank; Size; Logarithm;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- F00 - International Economics - - General - - - General
- R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GEO-2005-09-29 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-URE-2005-09-29 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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