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dc.contributor.author | González-Val, Rafael | - |
dc.contributor.author | Olmo Arriaga, José Luis del | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-13T13:40:00Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-10-13T13:40:00Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/116590 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This article analyzes empirically the main existing theories on income and population city growth: increasing returns to scale, locational fundamentals and random growth. To do this we implement a threshold nonlinearity test that extends standard linear growth regression models to a dataset on urban, climatological and macroeconòmic variables on 1,175 U.S. cities. Our analysis reveals the existence of increasing returns when per-capita income levels are beyond $19; 264. Despite this, income growth is mostly explained by social and locational fundamentals. Population growth also exhibits two distinct equilibria determined by a threshold value of 116,300 inhabitants beyond which city population grows at a higher rate. Income and population growth do not go hand in hand, implying an optimal level of population beyond which income growth stagnates or deteriorates. | ca |
dc.format.extent | 38 p. | - |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | - |
dc.language.iso | eng | ca |
dc.publisher | Institut d’Economia de Barcelona | ca |
dc.relation.isformatof | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.ieb.ub.edu/2012022157/ieb/ultimes-publicacions | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | IEB Working Paper 2011/39 | - |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | [WP E-IEB11/39] | cat |
dc.rights | cc-by-nc-nd, (c) González-Val et al., 2011 | - |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ | - |
dc.source | IEB (Institut d’Economia de Barcelona) – Working Papers | - |
dc.subject.classification | Desenvolupament urbà | cat |
dc.subject.classification | Població urbana | cat |
dc.subject.classification | Riquesa | - |
dc.subject.classification | Models multinivell (Estadística) | cat |
dc.subject.other | Urban development | eng |
dc.subject.other | City dwellers | eng |
dc.subject.other | Wealth | - |
dc.subject.other | Multilevel models (Statistics) | eng |
dc.title | Growth in a cross-section of cities: location, increasing returns or random growth? | ca |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper | ca |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | ca |
Appears in Collections: | IEB (Institut d’Economia de Barcelona) – Working Papers |
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