Abstract
This paper aims to reveal the eventual impacts of European Union (EU) membership process and other conventional factors on the city-size distribution of a candidate country (Turkey). I can state main results as follows: Analyzing from different estimation methods the direct effect of the EU reforms on agglomerating forces rather than congesting forces are revealed to be dominant for Turkey. However, the main impact of the EU membership process has positive but modest coefficient that indicate the weak willingness of the country for EU reforms.Keywords: Economic itegration, agglomeration, city-size distribution, EU, Turkey.JEL Classification: F15, F22, R12, R23
Highlights
One of the powerful regularities observed in rank-size distribution of cities is the Zipf’s Law
This paper aims to empirically reveal whether or not the EU with its reform impulsion has impact on the dynamic city-size distribution of Turkey
Though agglomerating forces are powerful within most of the EU-15 countries enter more or less under the effect of spreading forces one can think that convergence to the EU-15 threshold is a sign of activation of spreading forces in a member or accessing country. Considering their development stages it would be more reasonable to expect that at the beginning of the convergence with the EU-15, membership process marked by a set of reforms will enhance β -value
Summary
One of the powerful regularities observed in rank-size distribution of cities is the Zipf’s Law. It is expected that the more an economy realizes economic reforms in the way of EU membership process, the more its β -value (or city-size distribution) is subject to deep change over time. Though agglomerating forces are powerful within most of the EU-15 countries enter more or less under the effect of spreading forces one can think that convergence to the EU-15 threshold is a sign of activation of spreading forces in a member or accessing country Considering their development stages it would be more reasonable to expect that at the beginning of the convergence with the EU-15, membership process marked by a set of reforms will enhance β -value. Integrating GSI into the estimated model I aim to reveal the direct effect of the EU membership process through reforms on the dynamic city-size distribution of Turkey. I estimated the Pareto and Hill estimators so as to cover the whole period
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