Spatial competition between firms is standard fare for traditional location theory and contemporary geographical economics. In this paper we examine the implications of modeling spatial competition using an approach grounded in geographical political economy, using mathematics as the language of...

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This study is an attempt to produce a theoretically informed econometric analysis of dynamic regional economic performance. The first paper in this two-part study highlighted the problems and possibilities of translating the propositions contained in six 'soft' theories of local economic growth...

Contemporary approaches to understanding the mechanisms determining local economic growth tend to be characterized by a dualism between 'hard' quantitative and mathematical models derived from economics and the 'soft' qualitative models of geographical theory. In this study, we contribute to a...