 Quantitative Spatial EconomicsStephen Redding and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg Working Papers from eSocialSciences Abstract: The observed uneven distribution of economic activity across space is influenced by variation in exogenous geographical characteristics and endogenous interactions between agents in goods and factor markets. Until recently, the theoretical literature on economic geography had focused on stylized settings that could not easily be taken to the data. This paper reviews more recent research that has developed quantitative models of economic geography. These models are rich enough to speak to first-order features of the data, such as many heterogeneous locations and gravity equation relationships for trade and commuting. Yet at the same time, these models are sufficiently tractable to undertake realistic counterfactuals exercises to study the effect of changes in amenities, productivity, and public policy interventions such as transport infrastructure investments. It provides an extensive taxonomy of the different building blocks of these quantitative spatial models and discusses their main properties and quantification. [Working Paper 22655] Keywords: uneven distribution of economic activity; exogenous geographical characteristics and endogenous interactions; extensive taxonomy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:11340 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from eSocialSciences |
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