Giesen, Kristian:
Zipf's law for cities and the double Pareto lognormal distribution
Duisburg, Essen, 2012
2012Dissertation
WirtschaftswissenschaftenMercator School of Management - Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaftslehre
Titel in Englisch:
Zipf's law for cities and the double Pareto lognormal distribution
Autor*in:
Giesen, KristianUDE
LSF ID
49757
Sonstiges
der Hochschule zugeordnete*r Autor*in
Akademische Betreuung:
Südekum, Jens
Erscheinungsort:
Duisburg, Essen
Erscheinungsjahr:
2012
Umfang:
V, 96 Bl.
DuEPublico 1 ID
Signatur der UB:
Notiz:
Duisburg, Essen, Univ., Diss., 2012
Sprache des Textes:
Englisch

Abstract:

This dissertation concentrates on the size distribution of cities. From an empirical perspective, it is shown that Zipf's law for cities holds for the upper tail of the distribution and that the overall distribution is the Double-Pareto-Lognormal distribution. From a theoretical perspective, the dissertation builds a dynamic general equilibrium model of random urban growth with endogenous city formation, which explains the empirical finding of a Double-Pareto-Lognormal city size distribution.