This paper provides a simple theory of geographical mobility which simultaneously explains people’s choice of … of production which seeks to obtain the highest possible economic return. Our theory comprehends applications to …

historically emerged as the core. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor gives unions and governments in the …

The core-periphery model by Krugman (1991) has two 'dramatic' implications: catastrophic agglomeration and locational … and easily reversible transition from symmetry to agglomeration. …

received no attention in the new trade theory and the new economic geography. We set up a simple monopolistic competition model … into account. Our analysis furthermore implies that market-size based agglomeration forces are too weak to overcome the … a low elasticity of substitution) is very strong. This suggests that further agglomeration forces have to be invoked to …

This paper presents a simple, analytically solvable Chamberlinian agglomeration model. As in the canonical core …

-size distribution? Do they affect individual city sizes? Do they contribute to the productivity advantage of large cities and the …

larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the … cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote … interactions that increase productivity), possibly reinforced by localised natural advantage. To distinguish between them, we nest …

also identify equilibria with partial agglomeration of firms. Finally, we show that the incentives to subsidy education …