The paper is devoted to analytical investigation of the division of geographical space into urban and rural areas with application to Russia. Yegorov (2005, 2006, 2009) has suggested the role of population density on economics. A city has an attractive potential based on scale economies. The...

The paper is devoted to analytical investigation of the division of geographical space into urban and rural areas with application to Russia. Yegorov (2005, 2006, 2009) has suggested the role of population density on economics. A city has an attractive potential based on scale economies. The...

The role of population density for economic activity was neglected in most part of economic theory. This paper is a review and extension of the previous works of the author in this field. So far, densities did not become common economic variables in economic analysis, and two countries with...

Sustainable use of natural resources becomes an important issue today not only due to global warming and pollution issues but also because of critical pressure on the Earth's regeneration possibility. We cannot use classical microeconomic approach here for two reasons: a) impossibility to create...

This paper develops a novel approach studying the distribution of the regional population density across space. We work in a Bayesian parametric framework. Exploiting the Gamma distribution, we are able to introduce heterogeneity across space without incurring any a priori definition of...

A traditional variant of the studies of the spatial form of metropolitan areas traces population density gradients and interprets their variation in cross-section and time series samples according to hypotheses suggested by urban economic theory. Using census data from 1991 and 2000 we present...

I identify several characteristics that account for a large share of the variation in multifamily construction across metropolitan areas during 2013-15. It was stronger in larger metros, as measured by population, and less crowded ones, as measured by median population density and the increase...

This paper establishes that the Caloric Suitability Index (CSI) dominates the commonly used measure of agricultural suitability in the examination of the effect of land productivity on comparative economic development. The analysis demonstrates that the agricultural suitability index does not...