Locating Economic Concentration

Jeroen Hinloopen and Charles Marrewijk

No 04-066/2, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute

Abstract: We analyze the distribution of economic activity across space for different types of activity and different levels of aggregation. Not only is this distribution highly uneven (independently of the type of activity and level of aggregation), it is also remarkably regular regarding its size distribution (rank-size rule or Zipf’s Law) and regarding its interaction (gravity equation).

Keywords: economic activity; distribution; rank-size rule; Zipf’s Law; and gravity equation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F0 O0 R0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-06-09
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