Technical change and agglomeration

Carl Gaigne and Stephane Riou ()

Economics Bulletin, 2007, vol. 18, issue 3, 1-5

Abstract: Although economic historians consider technical change to be a significant factor explaining the evolution of the spatial organization of an economy, economic geography still fails to address this important issue. By developing a simple two-region general equilibrium model under monopolistic competition, we show that agglomeration is triggered by technological progress shifting production towards more skill intensive techniques.

Keywords: Skill-biased; change; economic; geography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-04-10
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