On Beckmann's Dispersed "interaction City"

Andrei Bazhanov and John Hartwick

No 1170, Working Paper from Economics Department, Queen's University

Abstract: Beckmann;s interaction model has each resident touching base in face-to-face activity with every other resident, per unit time, at the other's residence. Were-work his resulting "interaction city" with each resident "operating with" a Cobb-Douglas utility function. We then turn to a more satisfactory "technology" of residents interacting and solve for an interaction city with an explicit payoff to resident i forengaging in interaction.

Keywords: Spatial interactions of city residents; productive face-to-face activity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D11 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2007-07
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