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Heterogeneous firms, urban costs and agglomeration

International Journal of Economic Theory, 2017
AbstractThis paper explores how the interaction between firm heterogeneity, urban costs and transport costs determines spatial configuration across regions within a simple general equilibrium model. We shed light on how firm heterogeneity affects the centrifugal and centripetal forces and reshapes the spatial configuration of an urban space economy. We
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Urban unemployment, agglomeration and transportation policies

Journal of Public Economics, 2000
We study the role of unemployment in the context of the endogeneous formation of a monocentric city in which firms set efficiency wages to deter shirking. We first show that, in equilibrium, the employed locate at the vicinity of the city-center, the unemployed reside at the city-edge and firms set up in the city-center.
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Urban Wage Inequality and Economic Agglomeration

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
This paper explorers the impact of interplay between transport costs and commuting costs on urban wage inequality and economic agglomeration within a new economic geography model. As in former study, we find that workers tend at the same time to agglomerate in order to limit transport costs of manufactured goods and to disperse in order to alleviate the
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Consumption variety and urban agglomeration

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2003
Abstract We consider two types of consumers, who prefer different classes of non-tradable goods. Each consumer’s utility increases with the number of different goods available, and increases more with an increase in the variety of goods he prefers.
Amihai Glazer   +2 more
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Agglomeration, Hierarchy, Urban Rent and the City

SCIENZE REGIONALI, 2009
- (Paper first received, July 2009; in final form, September 2009) The paper fucuses on Italian contributions in the field of urban economics, mainly from a theoretical and empirical point of view. The Italian tradition is characterized by a constant conceptualization effort of the city as a socio-economic archetype, an original historical ...
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Functional Configuration of ITS for Urban Agglomeration

2017
This article presents selected problems design of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) in aspect of functional and technical configuration of ITS. The configuration of ITS system may includes several subsystems described taking into account following aspects and components: main objectives, specific objectives, functionalities, integration with ...
Grzegorz Karon, Jerzy Mikulski
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Urban Agglomerations of China

2010
城市群的基本概念,可以概括为:在特定的地域范围内具有相当数量的不同性质、类型和等级规模的城市,依托一定的自然环境条件,以一个或两个超大或特大城市作为地区经济的核心,借助于现代化的交通工具和综合运输网的通达性,以及高度发达的信息网络,发生与发展着城市个体之间的内在联系,共同构成一个相对完整的城市“集合体”   《中国城市群》不仅总结分析了我国城市群生长发育的因素、空间扩展过程与类型等,而且对它们的演变规律、发展个性与共性特征作了比较全面的分析论证,达到了一定的深度。作者博采众家之长,参阅与引用了许多中外代表性著作,综合地概括了城市群区域发展的动态特征以及城市与区域发展的相互关系,表达了不少新颖的观点。同时,本书对我国六大超大型城市群(沪宁杭、京津唐、珠江三角洲、山东半岛、辽宁中部与四川盆地 ...
Chan, RCK, Yao, SM, Zhu, YM
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Urban Agglomerations in China

2010
In the 21st century, the impacts of globalization, such as the shift in economic production, forced economic restructurings, are greatly affecting and stimulating the growth of China's and other countries' economic developments. The construction of new cities stems from the need to accommodate a population size of 6 billion in China.
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