Economic Linkages Across Space

Henry G. Overman (), Patricia Rice and Anthony J. Venables ()

CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: We develop a diagrammatic framework that can be used to study the economic linkagesbetween regions or cities. Hitherto, such linkages have not been the primary focus of eitherthe theoretical or empirical literatures. We show that our general framework can be used tointerpret both the New Economic Geography and Urban Systems literatures to help usunderstand spatial economic linkages. We then extend the theoretical framework to allow usto consider a number of additional issues which may be particularly important for analyzingthe impact of policy. Such policy analysis will also require empirical work to identify thenature of key relationships. In a final section, we consider what the existing empiricalliterature can tell us about these relationships.

Keywords: Spatial linkages; Urban systems; New Economic Geography; Urban and regional policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R00 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo and nep-ure
Date: Written 2007-06
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