In this paper we analyze the role played by Market access to explain income disparities among Japanese Prefectures for different periods of time. The results of the estimations suggest that 1) Market access plays an important role in the explanation of income disparities in Japan, 2) the effect...

This paper sheds new light on the observed income polarization process between Bogota and the rest of the departments in Colombia by pointing out the crucial role played by market access in avoiding departmental income disparities to be narrowed and, in so acting, as a penalty for the...

In this article we develop a simple analytically solvable model of heterogeneous firms. The heterogeneous firm framework presented in this paper is particularly suitable for the structural estimation of variety gains from trade integration, as all structural equations for empirical estimations...

The Henry George Theorem (HGT) states that, in first-best economies, the fiscal surplus of a city government that finances the Pigouvian subsidies for agglomeration externalities and the costs of local public goods by a 100% tax on land is zero at optimal city sizes. We extend the HGT to...

One may believe that it is better to transplant European successful models, such as the Polish model, or other regionalization schemes in the other European countries. I believe the French tradition of our law and our national peculiarities would be more suitable to be considered for...

In this paper we analysed to which extent the changes in market potentials in Poland have been a cause for increasing income disparities, which were observed across Polish regions from 1995 to 2008. To do so we derived and estimated a New Economy Geography Model, which relates per capita GDP...

We modify Paul Krugman’s (1991) ‘Core–Periphery’ model by replacing the traditional competitive sector with a monopolistically competitive one. We show that the structure of spatial equilibria remains the same as in the original model. This result continues to hold true under Cournot or...

Una gran parte de la teoría económica clásica se construyó sin tomar en consideración la variable espacio. En general, los enfoques se han basado esencialmente en el mercado, planteando la movilidad de los factores de producción, y de los bienes y servicios producidos, sin tener en cuenta...

El autor, luego de analizar los fundamentos del Plan Nacional de DesarrolloHacia un Estado Comunitario", examina la existencia de una definida políticade desarrollo territorial en el documento gubernamental, encontrandoque sólo se perfilaron algunos elementos, más referidos al...

We provide an analytical approach that facilitates understanding the bifurcation mechanism of a wide class of economic 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...