T Allen, C Arkolakis - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We develop a general equilibrium framework to determine the spatial distribution of economic activity on any surface with (nearly) any geography. Combining the gravity …
Y Li, X Liu - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2018 - Elsevier
This article aims to assess the impacts of urban spatial structure on economic productivity. Drawing upon detailed gridded population data of 306 Chinese cities at the prefecture level …
We introduce an internal geography to the canonical model of international trade driven by comparative advantages to study the regional effects of external economic integration. The …
JM Gaspar - The Annals of Regional Science, 2018 - Springer
This paper serves as an orientation towards the understanding of some of the contributions and theoretical limitations in New Economic Geography and seeks to provide a prospective …
M Brülhart, R Traeger - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2005 - Elsevier
We use entropy indices to describe sectoral location patterns across Western European regions over the 1975–2000 period. Entropy measures are decomposable, and they lend …
'Peter J. Taylor has produced a sweeping, empirically grounded, defense of cities as fundamental building blocks of long-term, large scale social structures; a way of freeing …
X Lao, H Gu, H Yu, F Xiao - Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 2021 - Springer
This study employs city-level data from China to examine the spatially-varying effects of human capital on urban innovation, applying the multi-scale geographically weighted …
M Berliant, P Wang - Contributions to Economic Analysis, 2004 - Elsevier
Theoretical models of urban growth are surveyed in a common framework. Exogenous growth models, where growth in some capital stock as a function of investment is assumed …