-integrated firms is a counter-example to the strong agglomeration effects found in the CP model. A symmetric equilibrium will always be … stable and hence agglomeration is prevented. The introduction of vertically-integrated firms that can separate the location … original CP model and thus lead to more agglomeration. Second, it also tends to decrease the parameter space in which full …

agglomeration of economic activities. …

models involving spatial agglomeration of economic activities. The proposed method overcomes the limitations of the Turing … (1952) approach that has been used to analyze the emergence of agglomeration in the multi-regional core-periphery (CP) model … of Krugman (1993, 1996). In other words, the proposed method allows us to examine whether agglomeration of mobile factors …

heterogeneity smooths the agglomeration patterns but that it should be considered neither as a dispersion force nor as an … agglomeration force. Indeed, the introduction of taste heterogeneity makes an initially dispersed economy less dispersed and an …

solve analytically. We use the modified model to analyse the tendencies for geographical agglomeration of manufacturing … manufacturing tends to agglomerate for low trade costs. In the physical capital case, on the contrary, agglomeration will not occur …

cluster together, turning location into a self-reinforcing process. Agglomeration raises the price of immobile local factors …