Is agglomeration desirable?

Fabien Candau ()

Working papers of CATT from HAL

Abstract: By introducing heterogeneity between high-skilled mobile and low-skill immobile workers in a model with land rent and commuting costs we develop a new model in the field of the new economic geography. This model, which can reveal a dispersion-agglomeration-dispersion configuration when trade gets freer, is used to compare via the Pareto criterion the two possible market outcomes, i.e. agglomeration and dispersion. When these equilibria can be ranked it is shown that dispersion can be a Pareto-efficient outcome.

Keywords: Economic geography; Cities; Trade; Welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-10
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-03550799v1
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-03550799v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Is Agglomeration Desirable? (2011)
Working Paper: Is Agglomeration Desirable? (2011)
Working Paper: Is agglomeration desirable? (2009)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:wpcatt:hal-03550799

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working papers of CATT from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CATT - UPPA - Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour ().