Zipf’s law for cities: an empirical examination
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- Ioannides, Yannis M. & Overman, Henry G., 2003. "Zipf's law for cities: an empirical examination," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 33(2), pages 127-137, March.
- Y Ioannides & Henry Overman, 2000. "Zipfs Law for Cities: An Empirical Examination," CEP Discussion Papers dp0484, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
- Overman, Henry G. & Ioannides, Yannis, 2000. "Zipf's law for cities: an empirical examination," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 20136, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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Zipf's Law; Gibrat's Law; urban growth; estimation of Brownian motion. JEL classification codes: R00;All these keywords.
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- R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
- C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
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