Spatial frictions

Südekum, Jens, Giordano Mion, Yasusada Murata and Kristian Behrens
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Jens Suedekum

No 8572, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the spatial economy? We develop and quantify a novel framework to address this question at three different levels: Do spatial frictions matter for the city-size distribution? Do they affect individual city sizes? Do they contribute to the productivity advantage of large cities and the nature of competition in cities? The short answers are: no, yes, and it depends.

Keywords: City-size distribution; Markups; Productivity; Trade frictions; Urban frictions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo and nep-ure
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