The footloose entrepreneur model with heterogeneous productivity firms

Po-Hao Lu () and Jyh-Fa Tsai ()
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Po-Hao Lu: National Taipei University
Jyh-Fa Tsai: National Taipei University

The Annals of Regional Science, 2024, vol. 72, issue 3, No 2, 710 pages

Abstract: Abstract This paper develops a footloose entrepreneur model with heterogeneous productivity in a country. In differing from von Ehrlich and Seidel (2013), our model shows that raising the heterogeneity of firms does not always foster industrial agglomeration, because the elasticity of substitution of products plays a dispersion role in industrial spatial distribution. When the elasticity of substitution is high, raising the heterogeneity of firms will tend to form a spatial symmetric distribution. On the other hand, when the elasticity of substitution is low, raising the heterogeneity of firms will tend to form a core-periphery distribution.

JEL-codes: F12 F22 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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