The field of spatial economics has made enormous progress in theorizing and measuring
agglomeration effects, trade costs, and urbanization. Typical models establish structural …

The authors show how a common approach that emphasizes the three-way interaction
among increasing returns, transportation costs, and the movement of productive factors can …

The most salient feature of the spatial economy is the presence of a large variety of
economic agglomerations. Our purpose is to review some of the main explanations for this …

When spatial inequality analyses are motivated by contrasting, say, New York City and
Yuma, Arizona, the set of economic forces a researcher identifies distinguishes prototypes of …

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 …

In recent empirical literature on spatial agglomeration, many papers find evidence consistent
with location‐specific externalities of some sort. Our willingness to accept evidence of …

This chapter examines empirical strategies that have been or could be used to evaluate the
importance of agglomeration and trade models. This theoretical approach, widely known as …

This book is the revised version of Economics of Agglomeration co-authored by Jacques-
Francois Thisse and Masahisa Fujita and published in 2002. Spatial economics is one of the …

The observed uneven distribution of economic activity across space is influenced by
variation in exogenous geographical characteristics and endogenous interactions between …

Explaining the growth and change of regions and cities is one of the great challenges for
social science. The field of economic geography and associated economics has developed …