Some Empirical Regularities of Spatial Economies: A Relationship between Industrial Location and City Size

Tomoya Mori, Koji Nishikimi () and Tony E. Smith ()
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Koji Nishikimi: Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO
Tony E. Smith: Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania

No 551, KIER Working Papers from Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research

Abstract: The spatial distribution of industries and population is quite lumpy, and this lumpiness varies across industries. Nevertheless, we show using Japanese data for metropolitan areas that the locations of both industries and population are linked by surprisingly simple and persistent patterns. In addition, we show mathematically that these patterns are in turn closely related to the well known Rank-Size Rule, as applied to metropolitan areas.

Keywords: agglomeration; hierarchy principle; rank-size rule; Zipf's Law. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2002-09
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