Do the world's largest cities follow Zipf's and Gibrat's laws?

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2014.09.005zbMath1311.91162OpenAlexW2063584014MaRDI QIDQ2345144

Jeff Luckstead, Stephen Devadoss

Publication date: 19 May 2015

Published in: Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2014.09.005

zbMATH Keywords

size distributionGibrat's lawZipf's lawgrowth processworld's largest cities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10)

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• Zipf plots and the size distribution of firms
• A simple and efficient test for Zipf's law
• Zipf's Law for Cities: An Explanation
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