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Welfare Analysis of the Number and Locations of Local Public Facilities

Berliant, Marcus; Peng, Shin-kun; Wang, Ping - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2000

We develop a discrete or finite household model with congestable local public goods where the level of provision, the number of facilities and their locations are all endogenously determined in a purely normative context. We prove the existence of an equal-treatment identical-provision second...

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Unequal cities: Self-selection, matching, and the distribution of income

Pokrovsky, Dmitry; Behrens, Kristian - European Regional Science Association - 2014

We develop a model of a city populated by heterogeneous agents. Agents self-select into entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurs set up firms which hire workers. We characterize the equilibrium matching between firms and workers, as well as the within-city assignment of agents to locations. We then...

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Knowledge Exchange, Matching, and Agglomeration

Berliant, Marcus; III, Robert R. Reed; Wang, Ping - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2000

is less likely to generate significant innovations. We demonstrate that the extent of agglomeration has significant … exchange and the spatial agglomeration of an economy we identify additional channels for interaction between agglomerative … activity and knowledge exchange. Finally, contrary to previous work in spatial agglomeration, our model suggests that …

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Production Externalities and Urban Configuration

Berliant, Marcus; Peng, Shin-Kun; Wang, Ping - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2000

Jacobs (1969) argues that uncompensated knowledge spillovers have played a crucial role in population agglomeration and …

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The Determinants of Agglomeration Redux: Transportation, Trade, and Input-Output Linkages

Behrens, Kristian; Brown, Mark; Bougna, Théophile - European Regional Science Association - 2014

We study the determinants of agglomeration of Canadian manufacturing industries from 1990 to 2009. In so doing, we … revisit the seminal contribution by Rosenthal and Strange (2001, "The determinants of agglomeration", J Urban Econ 50(2), 191 …

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