Trade and the structure of cities

Jean Cavailhes, Carl Gaigne, Takatoshi Tabuchi and Jacques Thisse
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Jean Cavailhes: CESAER - Centre d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales Appliquées à l'Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux - ENESAD - Etablissement National d'Enseignement Supérieur Agronomique de Dijon - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

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Abstract: Our purpose is to investigate how the interplay between trade, commuting and communication costs shapes the economy at both the interregional and intra-urban levels. Specifically, we study how economic integration affects the internal structure of cities and show how decentralizing the production and consumption of goods in secondary employment centers allows firms located in a large city to maintain their predominance. Several new results in both economic geography and urban economics are established, which all agree with empirical evidence.

Keywords: CITY STRUCTURE; SECONDARY BUSINESS CENTERS; COMMUTING COSTS; TRADE COSTS; COMMUNICATION COSTS; LOCALISATION; urban economy; économie spatiale; économie urbaine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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Published in Journal of Urban Economics, 2007, 62 (3), pp.383-404. ⟨10.1016/j.jue.2006.12.002⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2006.12.002

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