This article investigates agglomeration processes in ageing societies by introducing an overlapping generation … rates strengthens agglomeration processes, declining mortality rates weaken them. This is due to the fact that we allow for … distributional effects on agglomeration processes resulting from the turnover of generations. …

emphasized in the New Economic Geography (NEG) literature. Both growth and agglomeration processes are, however, themselves … uncertainty impacts upon growth and agglomeration. The main results are twofold. First, nonzero mortality rates support a more … equal distribution of productive factors by introducing an additional dispersion force that countervails the agglomeration …

-cost reduction effects at low transport costs can be so strong that runaway agglomeration dynamics appear in a manner consistent with …