Essays on economic geography and urban economics

  1. VERA CABELLO, MARIA
Dirigée par:
  1. Luis Fernando Lanaspa Santolaria Directeur/trice
  2. Fernando Sanz Gracia Directeur/trice

Université de défendre: Universidad de Zaragoza

Fecha de defensa: 19 septembre 2013

Jury:
  1. Olga Alonso Villar President
  2. Marcos Sanso Frago Secrétaire
  3. Daniel A. Tirado Fabregat Rapporteur
  4. José Olmo Badenas Rapporteur
  5. Diego Puga Pequeño Rapporteur

Type: Thèses

Teseo: 343373 DIALNET

Résumé

This doctoral thesis takes Urban Economics and the New Economic Geography as its references to study three important issues in these two disciplines. First, we analyze the influence of a strong temporary shock, namely, the U.S. Civil War, on the relative size of its cities and their growth. Second, we carry out an empirical study of the size distribution of cities to determine which statistical distribution best fits the data, the novelty being that it takes into account both their temporal and geographic dimension. Third, and finally, we propose a theoretical model that allows us to determine the effect of incorporating the service sector, especially services that act as an intermediate input for manufacturing, into the industrial economic landscape.