The relative strength of positive and negative spillovers of urban development is a long-standing and contested issue in regional and development economics, and the search for spread and backwash effects of development in urban core economies goes back at least 50 years. Using data from IMPLAN...

While there is general agreement on various features of “standard” regional computable general equilibrium (RCGE) models, there has been little discussion of representative macro behavioral assumptions and model closure. The purpose of this paper is to review the main differences between...