caa a22 4500 606165835 CHVBK 20210128100655.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00168-015-0663-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00168-015-0663-3 On the parametric description of the French, German, Italian and Spanish city size distributions [Elektronische Daten] [Miguel Puente-Ajovín, Arturo Ramos] We study the parametric description of the city size distribution of four European countries: France, Germany, Italy and Spain. The parametric models used are the lognormal, the double Pareto lognormal, the normal-Box-Cox and the threshold double Pareto Singh-Maddala (last two of these are defined in this paper). The results are quite regular. The preferred model is always the threshold double Pareto Singh-Maddala in the four countries. However, the dPln is not rejected always for the case of France, and in the case of Italy, the dPln is the runner-up distribution. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 Puente-Ajovín Miguel Department of Economic Analysis, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain aut Ramos Arturo Department of Economic Analysis, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain aut The Annals of Regional Science Springer Berlin Heidelberg 54/2(2015-03-01), 489-509 0570-1864 54:2<489 2015 54 168 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-015-0663-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-015-0663-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Puente-Ajovín Miguel Department of Economic Analysis, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ramos Arturo Department of Economic Analysis, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Annals of Regional Science Springer Berlin Heidelberg 54/2(2015-03-01), 489-509 0570-1864 54:2<489 2015 54 168