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001 2005620576
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005 20051208083021.0
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008 051208s2005 mau sb 000 0 eng
010 $a 2005620576
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aHB1
100 1 $aRose, Andrew,$d1959-
245 10 $aCities and countries$h[electronic resource] /$cAndrew K. Rose.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bNational Bureau of Economic Research,$cc2005.
490 1 $aNBER working paper series ;$vworking paper 11762
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 12/8/2005.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"If one ranks cities by population, the rank of a city is inversely related to its size, a well-documented phenomenon known as Zipf's Law. Further, the growth rate of a city's population is uncorrelated with its size, another well-known characteristic known as Gibrat's Law. In this paper, I show that both characteristics are true of countries as well as cities; the size distributions of cities and countries are similar. But theories that explain the size-distribution of cities do not obviously apply in explaining the size-distribution of countries. The similarity of city- and country-size distributions is an interesting riddle"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
650 0 $aCities and towns$xGrowth.
650 0 $aPopulation.
650 0 $aStates, Size of.
710 2 $aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 $aWorking paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;$vworking paper no. 11762.
856 40 $uhttp://papers.nber.org/papers/w11762