Knowledge Exchange, Matching, and Agglomeration

Marcus Berliant, Robert Reed (rreed@cba.ua.edu) and Ping Wang

Urban/Regional from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Despite wide recognition of their significant role in explaining sustained growth and economic development, uncompensated knowledge spillovers have not yet been fully modeled with a microeconomic foundation. This paper illustrates the exchange of knowledge as well as its consequences for agglomerative activity in a general-equilibrium search-theoretic framework. Agents, possessing differentiated types of knowledge, search for partners to exchange ideas in order to improve production efficacy. Contrary to previous work, we demonstrate that a decentralized equilibrium may be under-populated or over-populated and under-selective or over-selective in knowledge exchange, compared to the social optimum.

Keywords: matching; knowledge exchange and spillovers; agglomerative activity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C78 D51 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2005-06-23, Revised 2006-01-31
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Journal Article: Knowledge exchange, matching, and agglomeration (2006)
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Working Paper: Knowledge Exchange, Matching, and Agglomeration (2003)
Working Paper: Knowledge exchange, matching, and agglomeration (2001)
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Working Paper: Knowledge Exchange, Matching, and Agglomeration (2000)
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