Economic Linkages Across Space

Henry Overman, Patricia Rice and Anthony Venables

CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: We develop a diagrammatic framework that can be used to study the economic linkages between regions or cities. Hitherto, such linkages have not been the primary focus of either the theoretical or empirical literatures. We show that our general framework can be used to interpret both the New Economic Geography and Urban Systems literatures to help us understand spatial economic linkages. We then extend the theoretical framework to allow us to consider a number of additional issues which may be particularly important for analyzing the impact of policy. Such policy analysis will also require empirical work to identify the nature of key relationships. In a final section, we consider what the existing empirical literature can tell us about these relationships.

Keywords: Spatial linkages; Urban systems; New Economic Geography; Urban and regional policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R00 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo and nep-ure
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Journal Article: Economic Linkages across Space (2010)
Working Paper: Economic linkages across space (2010)
Working Paper: Economic Linkages Across Space (2008)
Working Paper: Economic linkages across space (2007)
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