Neighborhoods to nations via social interactions

Yannis Ioannides

Economic Modelling, 2015, vol. 48, issue C, 5-15

Abstract: The paper examines decisions by individuals and firms in the presence of social interactions and then turns to cities as the units of analysis. The city-based analysis shows the critical role of intercity trade and its impact on urban sectoral and functional specialization. The paper also examines long-run economic growth in economies made up of cities and Zipf's law in that context. The paper synthesizes key aspects of the social interactions literature with Ioannides (2013) as a background, taking off from key concepts, as presented there and drawing attention to key recent contributions by other researchers.

Keywords: Social interactions; Cities; Identification; Location decisions; Specialization; Zipf's law; Longrun growth; Schelling; Urban structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2014.10.057

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