Is Economic Integration a Historical Shock to City-size Distribution?

Sorhun, Engin

dc.contributor.author	Sorhun, Engin	en
dc.date.accessioned	2018-04-03T08:25:09Z
dc.date.available	2018-04-03T08:25:09Z
dc.date.issued	2018-03-20	en
dc.identifier.issn	1508-2008	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/24291
dc.description.abstract	Based on the assumption that the economic integration process contributes, via market reforms, to the dynamics of the space distribution in candidate countries, this study examines (i) whether agglomeration forces or dispersion forces are dominant; (ii) whether EU-integration causes a structural break to the space distribution over time; (iii) whether EU-integration makes the city-size distribution more even or uneven in eight eastern European Union members (EU–8). To carry out the analysis, the Ziwot-Andrew and Cusum Square tests are used to detect structural breaks; the ARDL Bound test is used to reveal the interaction between long-run and short-run equilibrium; and the Granger test is used to determine the direction of the causality among the variables. The main results are: the integration with the EU (i) caused a structural break to the city-size distribution, (ii) made the city-size distribution more uneven and (iii) stimulated the agglomerating forces over the spreading forces in the EU–8.	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Comparative Economic Research;1	en
dc.rights	This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0	en
dc.subject	City-size distribution	en
dc.subject	rank-size rule	en
dc.subject	Zipf’s Law	en
dc.subject	EU integration	en
dc.subject	new member and candidate countries	en
dc.subject	ARDL	en
dc.subject	Bound test	en
dc.subject	Granger causality test	en
dc.subject	R12	en
dc.subject	R15	en
dc.title	Is Economic Integration a Historical Shock to City-size Distribution?	en
dc.page.number	83-100	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Assoc. Prof., Istanbul 29 Mayis University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Economics	en
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	esorhun@29mayis.edu.tr	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.2478/cer-2018-0005	en
dc.relation.volume	21

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