{"id":2768,"date":"2016-06-01T01:04:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T23:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsijournal.eu\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2021-01-20T13:19:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T11:19:27","slug":"zipfs-law-appearance-in-the-russian-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/?p=2768","title":{"rendered":"ZIPF\u2019S LAW APPEARANCE IN THE RUSSIAN CITIES"},"content":{"rendered":"

Svetlana RASTVORTSEVA<\/h2>\n
World Economy Chair \u2013 Belgorod State National Research University, Russia, http:\/\/www.bsu.edu.ru
\nSRastvortseva@gmail.com<\/address>\n

Inna MANAEVA<\/h2>\n
World Economy Chair \u2013 Belgorod State National Research University, Russia, http:\/\/www.bsu.edu.ru
\nin.manaeva@yandex.ru<\/address>\n

Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n

The understanding of concentration processes about resources, population, enterprises in some regions and in the cities is very significant for economists and policy-makers. It\u2019s caused by the worldwide urbanization trend and local trend of economic activity agglomeration that increase the regional development differentiation within the country. Issues of economic activity locations and space distribution are solved by scientists over the past two centuries. Recent works show the increasing interest of economists to the Zipf\u2019s law testing in the regional system and the rank-size distribution of the cities. Research aims are to test the Zipf\u2019s law in the Russian cities and to test the hypothesis that the Russian Zipf coefficients depends on the size of the geographical territory of the Federal District.Methodology. In the paper it\u2019s used least square method for tasting the Zipf\u2019s law in Russian cities in general and separately for the federal districts. There is 1,123 Russian cities panel (cities with over 1,000 people population in 2014).Results. The Zipf\u2019s law is confirmed in the territory of Russia in general. According to the Federal Districts the Zipf coefficients range from -0.65 (Far Eastern Federal District) to -0.9 (the Urals and the North Caucasian Federal Districts). Equitability of cities hierarchy in the Ural and the North Caucasus Federal Districts dues to the fact that there are 139 cities located in the 1,789 thous. km2 in the Urals and 56 cities in the 170 thous. km2 in the Caucasus. In the Far East the city location is very disperse – 66 cities in the area of 6000 thous. km2 (Zipf coefficient – 0.65). Conclusions. Testing of the Zipf\u2019s law for the Russian cities in general shows that it\u2019s valid for the small (8,600 \u2013 15,300 peoples) and large cities (66,700 \u2013 331,000 peoples). For cities panel with population exceeds 100 thous. people. The Zipf\u2019s law is not valid for cities of more than 1 million people. (exception \u2013 the city of St. Petersburg). The result of the study is the confirmation of the hypothesis that the Zipf coefficient depends on the size of the Federal District.<\/p>\n

Keywords:<\/strong> location theories, the Zipf\u2019s law, the city, the rank-size distribution, the cities of Russia<\/p>\n

JEL classification:<\/strong> R12
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Svetlana RASTVORTSEVA World Economy Chair \u2013 Belgorod State National Research University, Russia, http:\/\/www.bsu.edu.ru SRastvortseva@gmail.com Inna MANAEVA World Economy Chair \u2013 Belgorod State National Research University, Russia, http:\/\/www.bsu.edu.ru in.manaeva@yandex.ru Abstract The understanding of concentration processes about resources, population, enterprises in some regions and in the cities is very significant for economists and policy-makers. It\u2019s caused by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[259,264,263,261,262,260],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published","tag-location-theories","tag-r12","tag-the-cities-of-russia","tag-the-city","tag-the-rank-size-distribution","tag-the-zipfs-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}