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In this monograph several aspects of externalities in cities are analyzed using extensions of a standard residential land use model. Topics covered are optimal and market city sizes, local public goods, traffic congestion, externalities between different types of households, and the growth of a...
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This paper reconsiders the evolution of the growth of American cities since 1790 in the light of new theories of urban growth. Our null hypothesis for long-term growth is random growth. We obtain evidence supporting random growth against the alternative of mean reversion (convergence) in city...
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Whether urbanization economies are caused by urban diversity or urban scale is not clear in regional and urban economics literature. Many empirical studies have used either city population size or urban industrial diversity to measure urbanization economies and have reached different...
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agglomeration of production in the context of a small open developing economy. We construct a general equilibrium model with …
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the agglomeration of agents in size or mass. We investigate agglomeration in sorting or by type of worker, that implies … agglomeration in size when worker populations differ by type. This kind of agglomeration can be driven by asymmetric information in …
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the agglomeration of agents in size or mass. We investigate agglomeration in sorting or by type of worker, that implies … agglomeration in size when worker populations differ by type. This kind of agglomeration can be driven by asymmetric information in …
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This paper investigates the impact of urban agglomeration on urban economic growth, using static and dynamic panel data … approach, based on data of 52 large cities in India for the period 2000 to 2009. The results shows that agglomeration has a … strong positive effect on urban economic growth and support the “Williamson hypothesis” that agglomeration increases economic …
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/or agglomeration, increases inequality in countries with a relative abundance of skilled workers in a way that is observationally …
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: international trade and agglomeration processes. First setting implies that the industrial labor is immobile, while second one … function, transportation costs and degree of asymmetry in initial labor endowment. As for agglomeration process, it was found … that the asymmetry in the population distribution simplifies pattern of agglomeration, making the direction of migration …
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Agglomeration can be caused by asymmetric information and a locational signaling effect: The location choice of workers …-periphery bifurcation where the agglomeration of high-skill workers eventually constitutes a unique stable equilibrium. When workers …
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