@techreport{Bosker2007development,
abstract = {The evolution of city growth is usually studied for relatively short time periods. The rise and decline of cities is, however, typically a process that takes many decades or even centuries. In this paper we study the evolution of Italian cities over the period 1300-1861. The first contribution of our paper is that we use various descriptive statistics on individual city sizes and the city-size distribution as a whole to highlight the main characteristics of Italys urban system such as the differences between northern and southern Italy. Our second, and main, contribution is that our data allow for panel estimation where city-size is regressed on various geographical, political and other determinants of city size for the period 1300-1861. We show that, although large shocks such as the plague epidemics are clearly visible in the data, the main determinants of Italys city growth invariably are physical geography and political predominance. Also the North-South difference turns out to be important.},
address = {M\"{u}nchen},
author = {E. Maarten Bosker and Steven Brakman and Harry Garretsen and Herman de Jong and Marc Schramm},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {R12; O18; 330; Stadtentwicklung; Stadtgr\"{o}\ss{}e; Stadtgeschichte; Sch\"{a}tzung; Italien},
language = {eng},
number = {1893},
publisher = {CESifo},
title = {The development of cities in Italy 1300 - 1861},
type = {CESifo working paper},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/25938},
year = {2007}
}
