Agglomeration and Spreading in an Asymmetric World

Sidorov, A. V.; Zhelobodko, Evgeny

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“…A natural way to cope with this problem is to endow one region with a comparative advantage. When the number of A-farmers, say, exceeds that of B-farmers, Sidorov and Zhelobodko (2013) show that the interval of τ -values sustaining agglomeration in region A is always wider than that associated with region B. When the number of A-farmers is sufficiently high, regardless of the transport cost level, there exists a unique equilibrium, which is such that all firms set up in region A.…”

Section: The Core-periphery Structurementioning

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What Can Be Learned from Spatial Economics?

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2019

Journal of Economic Literature

102

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Spatial economics aims to explain why there are peaks and troughs in the spatial distribution of wealth and people, from the international and regional to the urban and local. The main task is to identify the microeconomic underpinnings of centripetal forces, which lead to the concentration of economic activities, and centrifugal forces, which bring about the dispersion of economic activities at the regional and urban levels. Transportation matters at both scales, but in a different way. The emphasis is on the interregional flows of goods and passenger trips at the regional level and on individual commuting at the urban level. ( JEL F12, L13, R12, R23, R30, R40)

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Section: The Core-periphery Structurementioning

confidence: 95%

What Can Be Learned from Spatial Economics?

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2019

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“…where w M = w H M /w F M is a relative wage in this sector. Plugging ( 12), ( 19), (20), and ( 21) into ( 23) we obtain the equation for the relative wage w M as a function of mobile workers share λ:…”

Section: Partial Agglomerationmentioning

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Core-Periphery vs. Home Market Effect: Trade in the Traditional Sector and the Demand Advantage

Kichko

2017

SSRN Journal

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We study the role of (i) initial dierences in shares of immobile workers between countries, which stand for agglomeration forces, and (ii) positive trade costs in the traditional sector which are related to dispersion forces, in shaping the spatial pattern of the developed and transition countries. We show that on the trade liberalization path in skill-intensive industries, keeping high trade barriers in less skill-intensive sectors is enough to protect a transition country from de-industrialization. If trade liberalization in a skill-intensive sector is accompanied by decreasing trade barriers in the traditional sector, the developed country has a higher probability to become a Core. When partial agglomeration is stable, it is characterized by the Home Market Eect (HME).

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“…The first paper in the present issue, by Kichko (2018, in this issue), studies the joint impact of trade costs in all sectors and initial inequality between regions on spatial equilibria by mixing features of two pre-existing models of the New Economic Geography (NEG): one presented in the famous book by Fujita, Krugman, and Venables (1999), and another presented in a recent paper by Sidorov and Zhelobodko (2013). The first model introduces non-zero transport cost in the agricultural sector, and finds this can prevent the symmetric equilibrium from becoming unstable, and make agglomeration unsustainable for low transport costs in the industrial sector.…”

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This editorial summarizes the papers published in issue 13(4) so as to raise the bar in applied spatial economic research and highlight new trends. The first paper develops an economic geography model with trade costs in all sectors and different shares of unskilled labour in all locations. The second paper translates an economic geography model into a dynamic spatial econometric model and then estimates the unknown parameters to test for congestion spillover effects among Chinese cities. The following paper also investigates spillover effects, but of sovereign and banking risks across countries. The fourth paper empirically examines if a higher market potential results in higher average productivity and lower productivity dispersion of Italian retailers. The fifth paper demonstrates that modelling more than one spatial lag in the independent variables, using different specifications of the spatial weight matrix, can be used as a tool to correct for an omitted variable bias. The final paper develops a test for the existence of non-parametric non-linearities in a linear spatial econometric model.

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Agglomeration and Spreading in an Asymmetric World

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