Agglomeration and Networks in Spatial Economies

Börje Johansson and John Quigley

Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy, Working Paper Series from Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy

Abstract: We consider the parallel developments in the economics of agglomeration and the economics of networks. We explore the complentarities between the productivity benefits of agglomeration and those of network linkages, arguing that networks of actors dispersed over space may substitute for agglomerations of actors at a single point.

Keywords: agglomeration; networks; spatial economics; Social and Behavioral Sciences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-08-16
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