TRADE AND CIRCUSES - EXPLAINING URBAN GIANTS
TRADE AND CIRCUSES - EXPLAINING URBAN GIANTS
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DOI：
10.2307/2118515
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发表时间：
1995-02-01
影响因子：
13.7
通讯作者：
GLAESER, EL
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作者：
ADES, AF;GLAESER, EL
通过理论、案例研究和跨国证据，我们调查了一个国家的城市人口集中在一个城市背后的因素。 高关税、高国内贸易成本和低国际贸易水平提高了集中度。 更明显的是，政治（如不稳定的程度）决定了城市的首要地位。 独裁政权的中心城市平均比民主政权的中心城市大50%。 利用有关城市增长时间的信息和一系列工具，我们得出结论，主要的因果关系是从政治因素到城市集中，而不是从集中到政治变化。
Using theory, case studies, and cross-country evidence, we investigate the factors behind the concentration of a nation's urban population in a single city. High tariffs, high costs of internal trade, and low levels of international trade increase the degree of concentration. Even more clearly, politics (such as the degree of instability) determines urban primacy. Dictatorships have central cities that are, on average, 50 percent larger than their democratic counterparts. Using information about the timing of city growth, and a series of instruments, we conclude that the predominant causality is from political factors to urban concentration, not from concentration to political change.