The response of city economies to national business cycles

Article Abstract:

The responsiveness of metropolitan areas to national business cycles is examined. The research attempts to determine whether central cities are more sensitive to national business cycles than suburban areas, and what factors account for the difference. Central city and suburban employment variations caused by business start-ups, plant closings, on-site expansions, and migrations are compared for three manufacturing industries. The three industries are electronic components, motor vehicles, and machine tools. The results suggest that suburban locations tend to gain more than central cities during periods of economic expansion, but that central city economies tend to be more resilient to economic downturns because they have a higher proportion of mature firms.

United States economic conditions

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An extension of the monocentric urban spatial equilibrium model to a multicenter setting: the case of the two-center city

Article Abstract:

Companies located in a monocentric city that conforms substantively to the 'new urban economics' produce an export product under agglomeration economies, and employ homogeneous capital and labor. Workers live around the central business district in densities that decrease with distance. A developer sets up a second export production facility within the city's residential zone. Conditions for economic vitality and subcenter growth are examined, as well as the effects on long and short-term city location patterns. A limiting condition on the size of subcenter employment is given.

Demographic aspects, Urban land use, Commerce

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A new testing procedure of the rank size distribution

Article Abstract:

The widely held urban economic opinion that rank size distribution accurately represents city size distribution is challenged. A 17-nation study reveals that in the case of 15 of the countries, the product of a city's population and rank and a Pareto exponent do not conform with theoretical values. The US and Poland are listed as exceptions to this finding. An improved procedure is proposed for testing rank size distribution relevancy and which avoids the shortcomings found in three tests used in the literature.

Economic research

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