Some foundations for Zipf's law: Product proliferation and local spillovers

被引：40

作者：

Duranton, Gilles ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Toronto, Dept Econ, Toronto, ON M5S 3G7, Canada

来源：

REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS | 2006年 / 36卷 / 04期

关键词：

city size distribution; Zipfs law; endogenous growth; Simon's model;

D O I：

10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2006.03.008

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

This paper embeds the canonical model of endogenous growth with product proliferation developed by Romer [Romer, P.M., 1990. Endogenous technical change. Journal of Political Economy 98, S71-S102] into a simple urban framework. This yields a reduced form isomorphic to the popular statistical device developed by Simon [Simon, H., 1955. On a class of skew distribution functions. Biometrika 42, 425-440], which in turn can yield Zipf's law for cities. The stochastic outcomes of purposeful innovation and local spillovers can thus serve as foundations for random growth models. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：542 / 563

页数：22

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