We present a design of fiscal policy capable of providing the required incentives in order to make a decentralized economy with externalities move along the optimal transitional path in a Lucas-type human capital model. (Copyright: Elsevier)

This paper analyzes the persistence of the shock caused by the American Civil War on the relative city size distribution of the United States. Our fi…ndings suggest that the effects of this shock were permanent, which sharply contrasts with previous results regarding World War II for Japanese...

This paper analyses in detail the features offered by three distributions used in urban economics to describe city size distributions: lognormal, q-exponential and double Pareto lognormal, and another one of use in other areas of economics: the log-logistic. We use a large database which covers...

This paper analyzes the persistence of the shock caused by the American Civil War on the relative city size distribution of the United States. Our fi ndings suggest that the effects of this shock were permanent, which sharply contrasts with previous results regarding World War II for Japanese...

In this paper we insert the public sector into Krugman's seminal core-periphery model, focusing on the provision of public services financed through taxes on rents. Since public services are an element that attracts economic activity, while taxes have the opposite effect, we find that the net...