This study provides a systematic review of the existing literature on Zipf's law for city size
distribution. Existing empirical evidence suggests that Zipf's law is not always observable …

Global cities boast higher rates of innovation as measured through patent and scientific
production. However, the source of the location advantage of innovation hubs is still debated …

In recent years, it has been increasing evidence that lognormal distributions are widespread
in physical and biological sciences, as well as in various phenomena of economics and …

With urbanization and population migration, some Chinese cities fall into decline whereas
others prosper. Using nighttime light data, we redefine the city based on economic function …

In the literature, the distribution of city size is a controversial issue with two common
contenders: the Pareto and the log‐normal. While the first is most accredited when the …

This paper examines the Zipf's law for the size distribution of Pakistani cities using the five
census data from 1951 to 1998. We observe that Zipf's law does not hold in any of the five …

In most countries, alcohol consumption distributions have been shown to possess universal
features. Their unimodal right-skewed shape is usually modeled in terms of the Lognormal …

The paper explores the frequency and size distributions of firm-size in a novel dataset for the
mid-Victorian era from a recent extraction of the England and Wales population censuses of …

На современном этапе развития экономической науки городские эмпирики широко
используют закон Ципфа для оценки урбанистических систем регионов и стран. Закон …

The proper characterization of the size distribution and growth of firms represents an
important issue in economics and business. We use the Maximum Entropy approach to …