A Microeconomic Analysis of the COVID-19 Distribution in Turkey

Yigit Aydogan

Bingol University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences, 2020, vol. 4, issue 2, 11-25

Abstract: Larger cities do not amplify the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey. Reports from Turkish cities provide evidence that the Gibrat’s Law holds and the infection grows among population in proportion to the city sizes. Growth of the pandemic is not faster in larger cities. COVID-19 cases are lognormally distributed throughout the country. While the 0-19 age group of the society is associated with a negative impact on the reported cases, 40-59 group has the most additive effect. Distribution of the reported deaths from COVID-19 does not grow in proportion to the city size, and may well be approximated by both exponential and normal distributions.

Keywords: COVID-19; Gibrat’s law; law of the proportionate effect; city size distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 D39 I19 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://repec.bingol.edu.tr/bgo/A%20Microeconomic%2 ... on%20in%20Turkey.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bgo:journl:v:4:y:2020:i:2:p:11-25repec/bgo/

DOI: 10.33399/biibfad.759410

Access Statistics for this article

Bingol University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences is currently edited by Halim Tatli

More articles in Bingol University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences from Bingol University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Halim Tatli ().