various forms of agglomeration economies originating from metropolitan centers. Adopting an urban economics perspective, and …

integration, agglomeration is less likely to arise and concentration will be lower. Relative congestion reinforces agglomeration … whether agglomeration arises and if so to which extent economic activity is concentrated: As a consequence of enhanced …, thereby increasing equilibrium concentration. Due to the congestion externalities, the market outcome ends up in suboptimally …