A prospective review on New Economic Geography

Gaspar, José M.

doi:10.1007/s00168-018-0866-5

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“…One reason is the understanding of interdependencies among many regions to guide empirical studies (Bosker, Brakman, Garretsen, and Schramm 2010). A two‐region set‐up overlooks the variability of market access across regions (Fujita and Thisse 2009), thus more complex spatial patterns may arise in a multi‐regional set‐up compared to a two‐region one (Fujita and Mori 2005; Fujita and Thisse 2009; Behrens and Robert‐Nicoud 2011; Akamatsu, Takayama, and Ikeda 2012; Gaspar 2018). As pointed out by Fujita, Krugman, and Venables (1999) and Berliant and Mori (2017), the consideration of only two regions stems from the advantage of dealing with more tractable problems, although it seems implausible that the geographical dimension of economic activity can be reduced to a 2‐region framework.…”

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The Footloose Entrepreneur model with a finite number of equidistant regions

Gaspar

Castro

Correia‐da‐Silva

2019

Int J of Economic Theory

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We study the Footloose Entrepreneur model with a finite number of equidistant regions, focusing on the analysis of stability of three types of long-run equilibria: agglomeration, dispersion and partial dispersion. We find that, as the number of regions increases, there is more tendency for agglomeration and less tendency for dispersion. In the limit, as the number of regions tends to infinity, agglomeration becomes the unique stable equilibrium. Our conclusions are robust to any dependence of the total number of entrepreneurs and unskilled workers on the number of regions. Numerical evidence suggests that industry cannot disperse evenly among two regions when other regions have no industry. Finally, we introduce region heterogeneity in unskilled labour and obtain a more general condition for stability of agglomeration. We then study the impacts of regional asymmetries and find that having more unskilled workers in the core (or less in the periphery) increases the tendency for agglomeration.

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“…We refer the interested reader to Gaspar (2018, Sec. 4.3) for a more detailed account of some of these and other works.…”

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The Footloose Entrepreneur model with a finite number of equidistant regions

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Castro

Correia‐da‐Silva

2019

Int J of Economic Theory

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“…These authors showed that the growth rate of global economy is mainly related to the spatial repartition of an innovation sector across regions. Their conclusions confirm the existence of trade-off between efficiency and spatial equity (Gaspar 2018). In terms of public policy, there is a conflict between social cohesion and economic growth.…”

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Impacts of Public Telecommunications Policy on Industrial Geography and Welfare

Chatti

Abalala

2021

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We include a clear distinction between transport and telecommunication infrastructures. We assume that public expenditure enables Information Technology Enabled Services to be traded abroad without the use of traditional transport modes. We show that the increase in the knowledge spillovers mainly related to mobile human capital and trade of services can develop industrialization in developing country, leading to less spatial inequalities. This latter must invest more in telecommunication than in transportation infrastructures to attract both industrial and knowledge activities. The welfare level will be improved for skilled workers in both countries when public policy decreases the cost of trading knowledge.

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“…The inconsistency is a ubiquitous phenomenon in economic geography. The New Geo-Economics [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] explains that economic gathering of goods and services determines how population and capital flow spatially. These flow processes themselves tend to continuously self-strengthen.…”

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“…Williamson indicated that differences among regions in a country often showed a U-shape trend of changes against the improvement of economic development levels, i.e., regional differences typically decline first and then rise after reaching the bottom of the trend against economic development. The New Geo-Economics [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] explains that economic gathering of goods and services determines how population and capital flow spatially. These flow processes themselves tend to continuously self-strengthen.…”

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Balancing Population Distribution and Sustainable Economic Development in Yangtze River Economic Belt of China

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From a macro perspective, the inconsistency between population distribution and economic development reflects the lag of population mobility and, at the same time, widens regions’ economic disparity. China, as a socialist country, is very concerned with the regional disparities. Aiming at analyzing ways to reduce regional disparities and promote balanced and sustainable regional developments, this paper applies spatial analytical methods in econometrics, using the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China as an example, to analyze the spatial inconsistency between the distribution of population and economic development. The study also examines the influencing factors for such inconsistency and proposes countermeasures from the perspective of floating population and regional economics. The research results show that the improvement of human capital and the tilt of regional policies are conducive to population agglomeration. Furthermore, increasing the input of physical capital can promote economic agglomeration. From the spatial econometric analysis in this paper, the direct and indirect effects have opposite directions, so it is necessary to consider the indirect effects when implementing policies or programs.

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A prospective review on New Economic Geography

Cited by 24 publications

References 188 publications

The Footloose Entrepreneur model with a finite number of equidistant regions

The Footloose Entrepreneur model with a finite number of equidistant regions

Impacts of Public Telecommunications Policy on Industrial Geography and Welfare

Balancing Population Distribution and Sustainable Economic Development in Yangtze River Economic Belt of China

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