A simple model of economic geography à la Helpman–Tabuchi

A simple model of economic geography à la Helpman-Tabuchi∗

This paper explores the interplay between commodities’ transportation costs and workers’ commuting costs within a general equilibrium framework à la Dixit-Stiglitz. Workers are mobile and choose a region where to work as well as an intraurban location where to live. We show that a more integrated economy need not be more agglomerated. Instead, low transportation costs lead to the dispersion of ...

A Competitive Model of Economic Geography

Most of the literature argues that competitive analysis has nothing interesting to say about location. This paper argues, to the contrary, that a competitive model can have something interesting to say about location, provided that locations are not identical and transportation costs are not zero. To do this, it constructs a competitive intertemporal general equilibrium model and applies it to ...

A note on the equilibria of an economic model with local competition "à la Cournot"

Guirao and Rubio [6] introduces an economic model, which generalizes the classical duopoly of Cournot type, where the competitors are located around a circle or a line and each rm competes à la Cournot with its right and left neighboring. For the case of having three and four players we describe completely the bifurcations of equilibria in terms of the production costs of each rm and we study t...

Contribution à l'étude de la maladie athéromateuse

Economic geography