Product diversity, taste heterogeneity, and geographic distribution of economic activities: market vs. non-market interactions

Article Abstract:

The effect of economic geography and probabilistic migration on number and stability of equilibrium geographic structures are analyzed. Findings suggests that home market effect due to market-mediated product diversity creates an agglomeration force, whereas idiosyncratic taste differences serves as probabilistic immobile factor and induce dispersion force.

Income Distribution, Labor market, Equilibrium (Economics), Labour market

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A simple model of economic geography a la Helpman-Tabuchi

Article Abstract:

A simple model of economic geography integrating both transportation and commuting costs, where labor is homogenous and mobile, is proposed. It is suggested that this model can be used as a building-block in a more general setting, such as growth-models with infinitely-lived consumers or overlapping generations.

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How density economies in international transportation link the internal geography of trading partners

Article Abstract:

The spatial impact of density economies and density diseconomies on the trade and transport costs in a new economic geography model is examined.

Italy, France, Belgium, Transportation, Economic aspects, Economies of scale, Commerce

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