Working Paper
The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas
Kurt Schmidheiny, Jens Suedekum
CESifo, Munich, 2015
CESifo Working Paper No. 5335
CESifo, Munich, 2015
CESifo Working Paper No. 5335
We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are “too small” to follow Zipf’s law.
CESifo Category
Empirical and Theoretical Methods
Fiscal Policy, Macroeconomics and Growth
Empirical and Theoretical Methods
Fiscal Policy, Macroeconomics and Growth
Keywords: city size distributions, Zipf's law, functional urban areas, urban systems
JEL Classification: R110, R120