Despite the drop in transport and commuting costs since the mid-19th century, sizable and
lasting differences across locations at very different spatial scales remain the most striking …

Since spatial issues have become more important in economic theory, it is of interest to
examine how space is represented. In empirical terms, this concerns at least the …

Most models of regional agglomeration are based on the new economic geography (NEG)
model in which returns to scale are pecuniary. We investigate the implications for regional …

The conversation between economic geographers and political economists has not made
much progress. The former focus on exchange, markets and efficiency, as can be seen in …

In recent years, the role of space in general and of spatial externalities in particular has
gained an increasingly prominent position in mainstream economics, in part stimulated by …

Although a rich and extensive body of theoretical research on new economic geography has
emerged, empirical research remains comparatively less well developed. This paper …

We consider the parallel developments in the economics of agglomeration and the
economics of networks. We explore the complementarities between the productivity benefits …

This paper develops a model of a spatial economy in which interregional trade patterns and
the structure of the transport network are determined endogenously as a result of the …

The question to be addressed in this paper is that of the agglomeration and dispersion
forces that are likely to account for the location of people and jobs in rural areas and the way …

Spatial econometrics deals with spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity, critical
aspects of the data used by regional scientists. These characteristics may cause standard …