Dynamic Urban Models: Agglomeration and Growth

Berliant, Marcus; Wang, Ping

doi:10.1108/s0573-8555(2005)0000266018

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“…This literature is surveyed in Berliant andWang (2004) andHenderson (2004). Like this paper, it also often views purposeful innovative activity as a key engine of urban growth.…”

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Some foundations for Zipf's law: Product proliferation and local spillovers

Duranton

2006

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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This paper embeds the canonical model of endogenous growth with product proliferation developed by Romer [Romer, P.M., 1990. Endogenous technical change. Journal of Political Economy 98, S71-S102] into a simple urban framework. This yields a reduced form isomorphic to the popular statistical device developed by Simon [Simon, H., 1955. On a class of skew distribution functions. Biometrika 42, 425-440], which in turn can yield Zipf 's law for cities. The stochastic outcomes of purposeful innovation and local spillovers can thus serve as foundations for random growth models. ABSTRACT: This paper embeds the canonical model of endogenous growth with product proliferation developed by Romer (1990) into a simple urban framework. This yields a reduced form isomorphic to the popular statistical device developed by Simon (1955), which in turn can yield Zipf's law for cities. The uncertainties and unevenness associated with the outcomes of purposeful innovation can thus serve as microeconomic foundations for random growth models.

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“…This literature is surveyed in Berliant andWang (2004) andHenderson (2004). Like this paper, it also often views purposeful innovative activity as a key engine of urban growth.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Some foundations for Zipf's law: Product proliferation and local spillovers

Duranton

2006

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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“…We will wrap up the discussion on spatial dynamics in a generalized Ramsey growth model as described in Berliant and Wang (). The generalization lies in the introduction of population evolution based on not only natural births but also net migration inflows induced by cross‐location wage gaps.…”

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Tribute to Marcus Berliant: A pivotal matchmaker of general equilibrium and spatial economics

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Wang

2019

Int J of Economic Theory

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“…Considering a sufficiently long and representative time window [75], demographic resilience in the study area was estimated on the basis of three scenarios: locations (i) attracting population, (ii) maintaining a constant population stock, and (iii) losing population. By explaining (apparent and latent) mechanisms that underlie population redistribution over larger regions [76][77][78], these three scenarios were assumed to be associated with different levels of demographic resilience at the local scale, reflecting more general socioeconomic conditions at the regional scale [66,72,74]. Our study benefited from a homogenized database derived from official statistics [79][80][81] and by referring to the common framework of Territorial Statistical Units proposed by EUROSTAT, the statistical office of the European Union.…”

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Demographic Resilience in Local Systems: An Empirical Approach with Census Data

Colantoni

Hälbac-Cotoară-Zamfir

Halbac‐Cotoara‐Zamfir

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This study estimates demographic resilience in local socioeconomic systems of Southern Europe using long-term population dynamics. We assume attractive places with a continuously expanding (resident) population as ‘demographically resilient’, and locations experiencing a persistent decline of population as more fragile to external shocks. Based on these premises, a comprehensive assessment of demographic resilience in more than 1000 municipalities along the urban–rural gradient in Greece, a Mediterranean country with marked regional disparities, was carried out between 1961 and 2011. Municipalities were considered representative of homogeneous local communities, especially in rural areas. The results of non-parametric correlations suggest how basic geographical gradients (coastal–inland and urban–rural) have significantly influenced the demographic resilience of Greek municipalities. These findings outline two contrasting spatial patterns that reflect (i) continuous expansion of peri-urban local communities and (ii) a particularly intense rural shrinkage, linking depopulation to land abandonment and scarce accessibility of inland districts. While long-term population growth in Greece has progressively re-shaped the intrinsic divide in urban and rural areas, the traditional gap in central and peripheral districts is still reflected in the spatial polarization between the ‘demographically resilient’, socially dynamic coastal locations and the ‘demographically fragile’ inland, economically marginal places. These results indicate the persistence of a center–periphery model characterizing long-term settlement expansion in Greece, with spatial patterns delineating ‘resilient’ and ‘fragile’ districts based essentially on infrastructures, accessibility, and amenities.

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Dynamic Urban Models: Agglomeration and Growth

Cited by 9 publications

References 66 publications

Some foundations for Zipf's law: Product proliferation and local spillovers

Some foundations for Zipf's law: Product proliferation and local spillovers

Tribute to Marcus Berliant: A pivotal matchmaker of general equilibrium and spatial economics

Demographic Resilience in Local Systems: An Empirical Approach with Census Data

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