Market Potential and City Growth: Spain 1860-1960

González‐Val, Rafael; Tirado, Daniel A.; Viladecans‐Marsal, Elisabet

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“…This revival of the market potential function led to a broad range of empirical literature explaining spatial divergence in income and the distribution of economic activity (see Redding, ). Within this strand of literature, some approaches were explicitly dedicated to the explanation of urban growth, combining the NEG with the more traditional urban economics literature (e.g., Au & Henderson, ; Black & Henderson, ; Da Mata, Deichmann, Henderson, Lall, & Wang, ; González‐Val, Tirado‐Fabregat, & Viladecans‐Marsal, ). All of those estimations find a strong positive relation between market potential and urban population and/or income growth.…”

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The impact of EU Eastern enlargement on urban growth and decline: New insights from Germany's Eastern border

Heider

2019

Papers in Regional Science

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This paper uses the quasi‐experimental setting of the 2004 EU enlargement, as well as town‐level data along the affected German border, to estimate the effect of economic integration on border town population development. Using a difference‐in‐differences approach, we find that the accession has had a significant positive effect on the rate of population change after 2004. However, this does not offset the, generally, poorer population development of border towns compared to interior towns. Moreover, the integration effect appears to strongly depend on initial local conditions. No effects were found for Polish towns on the opposite side of the border.

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The impact of EU Eastern enlargement on urban growth and decline: New insights from Germany's Eastern border

Heider

2019

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“…As a consequence, the city size distribution of the northern part of Italy was relatively more stable than that of the southern part. González‐Val, Viladecans‐Marsal, and Tirado‐Fabregat () analyse the growth of Spanish cities during the period 1860–1960. They find that only changes in the market potential from 1900 had a significant effect on population growth, linking this result to the advances in the economic integration of the national market together with an intense process of industrialization.…”

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Historical urban growth in Europe (1300–1800)

González‐Val

2019

Papers in Regional Science

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This paper analyses the evolution of the European urban system from a long‐term perspective (from 1300 to 1800). Using the method recently proposed by Clauset, Shalizi, and Newman, a Pareto‐type city size distribution (power law) is rejected from 1300 to 1600. A power law is a plausible model for the city size distribution only in 1700 and 1800, although the log‐normal distribution is another plausible alternative model that we cannot reject. Moreover, the random growth of cities is rejected using parametric and non‐parametric methods. The results reveal a clear pattern of convergent growth in all the periods.

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Market Potential and City Growth: Spain 1860-1960

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The impact of EU Eastern enlargement on urban growth and decline: New insights from Germany's Eastern border

The impact of EU Eastern enlargement on urban growth and decline: New insights from Germany's Eastern border

Historical urban growth in Europe (1300–1800)

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