Locating Economic Concentration

Hinloopen, Jeroen; van Marrewijk, Charles

doi:10.2139/ssrn.557069

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Locating Economic Concentration

Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. TI 2004-066/2

34 Pages Posted: 22 Jun 2004

See all articles by Jeroen Hinloopen

Jeroen Hinloopen

CPB Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis; University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam School of Economics (ASE); Tinbergen Institute

Charles van Marrewijk

Utrecht University - School of Economics

Date Written: June 2004

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, gravity equation

JEL Classification: F0, O0, R0

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Hinloopen, Jeroen and van Marrewijk, Charles, Locating Economic Concentration (June 2004). Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. TI 2004-066/2, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=557069 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.557069