06-100/1 - Comparative Advantage, the Rank-size Rule, and Zipf's Law

• Authors
  Jeroen Hinloopen, Universiteit van Amsterdam; Charles van Marrewijk, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
• Publication date
  November 6, 2006

• Keywords
  Revealed comparative advantage; Balassa index; rank-size rule; Zipf’s Law; power law; Pareto distribution
• JEL
  C13; C33; F1; L1; O5; R12