A Simple, Analytically Solvable Chamberlinian Agglomeration Model
Author : Michael Pflüger
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 2001
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Economic Analysis of Industrial Agglomeration
Author : Jian Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811074372
Book Description
This book investigates the industrial agglomeration and dispersion within a country under trade liberalization and interregional integration by considering both economic forces and geographical elements. Chapter 1 gives a brief introduction about the background, research topics and organizations in this book. Chapter 2 provides a detailed explanation of Krugman’s new economic geography (NEG) model and reviews the subsequent refinements of the original model from mainly geographical viewpoints. Chapter 3 extends Krugman’s original model to a two-country and three-region case where the domestic regions are fully asymmetrical in terms of their sizes and accessibilities to global markets. To better explain the reality of developing countries, chapter 4 presents an analytical model which assumes that unskilled workers are employed in both traditional and manufacturing sectors. Chapter 5 empirically investigates the home market effect (HME) in terms of wages in the case of China by using panel data for the period 1980–2012. Chapter 6 gives a summary and implication about the findings and conclusions in this book.
Bifurcation Theory for Hexagonal Agglomeration in Economic Geography
Author : Kiyohiro Ikeda
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 4431542582
Book Description
This book contributes to an understanding of how bifurcation theory adapts to the analysis of economic geography. It is easily accessible not only to mathematicians and economists, but also to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in nonlinear mathematics. The self-organization of hexagonal agglomeration patterns of industrial regions was first predicted by the central place theory in economic geography based on investigations of southern Germany. The emergence of hexagonal agglomeration in economic geography models was envisaged by Krugman. In this book, after a brief introduction of central place theory and new economic geography, the missing link between them is discovered by elucidating the mechanism of the evolution of bifurcating hexagonal patterns. Pattern formation by such bifurcation is a well-studied topic in nonlinear mathematics, and group-theoretic bifurcation analysis is a well-developed theoretical tool. A finite hexagonal lattice is used to express uniformly distributed places, and the symmetry of this lattice is expressed by a finite group. Several mathematical methodologies indispensable for tackling the present problem are gathered in a self-contained manner. The existence of hexagonal distributions is verified by group-theoretic bifurcation analysis, first by applying the so-called equivariant branching lemma and next by solving the bifurcation equation. This book offers a complete guide for the application of group-theoretic bifurcation analysis to economic agglomeration on the hexagonal lattice.
Complexity and Geographical Economics
Author : Pasquale Commendatore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319128051
Book Description
The uneven geographical distribution of economic activities is a huge challenge worldwide and also for the European Union. In Krugman’s New Economic Geography economic systems have a simple spatial structure. This book shows that more sophisticated models should visualise the EU as an evolving trade network with a specific topology and different aggregation levels. At the highest level, economic geography models give a bird eye’s view of spatial dynamics. At a medium level, institutions shape the economy and the structure of (financial and labour) markets. At the lowest level, individual decisions interact with the economic, social and institutional environment; the focus is on firms’ decision on location and innovation. Such multilevel models exhibit complex dynamic patterns – path dependence, cumulative causation, hysteresis – on a network structure; and specific analytic tools are necessary for studying strategic interaction, heterogeneity and nonlinearities.
The New Introduction to Geographical Economics
Author : Steven Brakman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521875323
Book Description
This revised and updated introduction to geographical economics explains the who, why and where of the location of economic activity.
Bifurcation Theory of Pattern Formation in Economic Geography
Author : Kiyohiro Ikeda
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
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ISBN : 3031716868
Book Description
An Introduction to Geographical and Urban Economics
Author : Steven Brakman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 110841849X
Book Description
This up-to-date third edition provides an accessible introduction to urban and geographical economics using real world examples and key models.
International Regional Economic Integration and the Development of China’s Borderland Economies
Author : Shuanglu Liang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
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ISBN : 9819730449
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Principles of Regional Science
Author : Zheng Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,1 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811053677
Book Description
This book summarizes the research findings in regarding a region as a rational and abstract concept and explores the principles of regional science. Focusing on location theory, spatial dynamics and regional evolution theory, it stresses that the region as a scientific concept is an essential abstract of an economic entity of a place. While it introduces a number of case studies, the content is general and universal rather than specific. Beginning with location theory – the basis of regional science – it explains how regions breed their own characteristics as economic entities against a background of place. For example, it discusses the location theory of the tourism industry and analyzes issues of facility location and R&D-industry location theory. The second part of the book addresses interactions with the spatial dynamics, including the dynamic mechanism of regions against a background of space. Spatial dynamics, which includes concepts from statistical physics, provides insights into the dynamic mechanism of aggregation, diffusion, and industrial clustering in regional science as well as in geography and economics. The book then describes regional dynamics as a development of spatial dynamics: REGION is completely independent as a research object and is no longer part of spatial dynamics. This book also discusses in detail regions as the dynamic characteristics of the economy or the basic characteristics of a certain place and examines the theory of regional evolution. It argues that regions are evolution and irreversible features of development with path dependence, which are the characteristics of a region that differ from general economic phenomena. This book by Professor Zheng Wang is outstanding. Its focus on Regional Science will open this area up to a wide variety of theoretical and applied researchers. I recommend the work without reservations. It covers critically important principles in the field and should be read and used by students, faculty and applied researchers doing policy analysis. I can see this as an important handbook and reference work as well as a textbook in the field. Kingsley Haynes
Economic Geography
Author : Pierre-Philippe Combes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 2008-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400842948
Book Description
Economic Geography is the most complete, up-to-date textbook available on the important new field of spatial economics. This book fills a gap by providing advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the latest research and methodologies in an accessible and comprehensive way. It is an indispensable reference for researchers in economic geography, regional and urban economics, international trade, and applied econometrics, and can serve as a resource for economists in government. Economic Geography presents advances in economic theory that explain why, despite the increasing mobility of commodities, ideas, and people, the diffusion of economic activity is very unequal and remains agglomerated in a limited number of spatial entities. The book complements theoretical analysis with detailed discussions of the empirics of the economics of agglomeration, offering a mix of theoretical and empirical research that gives a unique perspective on spatial disparities. It reveals how location continues to matter for trade and economic development, yet how economic integration is transforming the global economy into an economic space in which activities are performed within large metropolitan areas exchanging goods, skills, and information. Economic Geography examines the future implications of this evolution in the spatial economy and relates them to other major social and economic trends. Provides a complete introduction to economic geography Explains the latest theory and methodologies Covers the empirics of agglomeration, from spatial concentration measurement to structural estimations of economic geography models Includes history and background of the field Serves as a textbook for students and a resource for professionals
