A Competitive Model of Economic Geography
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چکیده
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 suggestive example of migration.
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From competitive regions to competitive city-regions: a new orthodoxy, but some old mistakes
• This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Geography following peer review. The de nitive publisher-authenticated version [HARRISON, J., 2007. From competitive regions to competitive cityregions: a new orthodoxy, but some old mistakes. Journal of Economic Geography, 7 (3), pp. 311-332 ] is available online at: http://joeg.oxfo...
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