Cities and growth: Theory and evidence from France and Japan (original) (raw)

for constructive comments, M. Minni of INSEE for his helpfulness in providing data on French aggloneratioiiS and Aditya Bhattacharjea, Yuval Nachtom, and Akiko Tamura for their excellent research assistance. Akiko Tamura constructed population data for Japanese urban agglomerations from census figures on the population of Japanese cities. This paper is part of NBER's research program in International Trade and Investment. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors and not those of the National Bureau of Economic Research.