Regional specialization, urban hierarchy, and commuting costs

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Tabuchi, Takatoshi; Thisse, Jacques-Francois
• 署名单位: University of Tokyo; Universite Catholique Louvain; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2354.2006.00414.x
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 1295-1317
• 关键词: agglomeration; cities; price; industries; geography

摘要

We consider an economic geography model of a new genre: All firms and workers are mobile and their agglomeration within a city generates costs through competition on a housing market. In the case of two sectors, contrasted patterns arise. When one good is perfectly mobile, the corresponding industry is partially dispersed whereas the other is agglomerated, thus showing regional specialization. When one sector supplies a nontradeable consumption good, this sector is more agglomerated than the other. The corresponding equilibrium involves an urban hierarchy in that a larger array of varieties of the two goods is produced within the same city.