We study the dynamics of inter-regional disparities for a number of characteristics of the development, test the hypothesis of the new economic geography and connect the results with the prediction of the bell-shaped curve describing the spatial concentration over time. Empirical analysis shows...

Peaks and troughs in the spatial distributions of population, employment and wealth are a universal phenomenon in search of a general theory. Such spatial imbalances have two possible explanations. In the first one, uneven economic development can be seen as the result of the uneven distribution...