%0 Journal Article %T Trade and Institutions: Explaining Urban Giants %+ Centre d'Analyse Théorique et de Traitement des données économiques (CATT) %A Candau, Fabien %A Gbandi, Tchapo %< avec comité de lecture %@ 1744-1374 %J Journal of Institutional Economics %I Cambridge University Press (CUP) %V 15 %N 6 %P 1017-1035 %8 2019-12 %D 2019 %R 10.1017/S1744137419000328 %K Democracy %K Urban Primacy %K Market Access %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and FinanceJournal articles %X By analyzing the population growth at the top of the urban hierarchy, we test two hypothesis explaining the rise of mega-cities: trade and political institutions. We nd that democratic institutions are the main factor behind the concentration of a nation's urban population in the main city. Contrary to the literature, we nd that extractive institutions reduce the size of the biggest city. %G English %2 https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-02416125/document %2 https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-02416125/file/FREIT1518.pdf %L hal-02416125 %U https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-02416125 %~ SHS %~ UNIV-PAU %~ AO-ECONOMIE %~ CATT %~ UPPA-OA