FIRM FRAGMENTATION AND URBAN PATTERNS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Sarte, Pierre-Daniel; Owens, Raymond
• 署名单位: Princeton University
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2354.2008.00526.x
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 143-186
• 关键词: organization; KNOWLEDGE

摘要

We document several empirical regularities regarding the evolution of urban structure in the largest U. S. metropolitan areas over the period 1980-90. These regularities relate to changes in resident population, employment, occupations, as well as the number and size of establishments in different sections of the metropolitan area. We then propose a theory of urban structure that emphasizes the location and internal structure decisions of firms. In particular, firms can decide to locate their headquarters and operation plants in different regions of the city. Given that cities experienced positive population growth throughout the 1980s, we show that firm fragmentation produces the diverse set of facts documented in the article.