Agglomeration and trade revisited

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ottaviano, G; Tabuchi, T; Thisse, JF
• 署名单位: Bocconi University; University of Tokyo; Universite Catholique Louvain
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/1468-2354.t01-1-00021
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 409-435
• 关键词: increasing returns; economic-geography; HISTORY; expectations; MODEL

摘要

The purpose of this article is twofold. First, we present an alternative model of agglomeration and trade that displays the main features of the recent economic geography literature while allowing for the derivation of analytical results by means of simple algebra. Second, we show how this framework can be used to permit (i) a welfare analysis of the agglomeration process, (ii) a full-fledged forward-looking analysis of the role of history and expectations in the emergence of economic clusters, and (iii) a simple analysis of the impact of urban costs on the spatial distribution of economic activities.