Agglomeration and population aging in a two region model of exogenous growth

Theresa Grafeneder-Weissteiner () and Klaus Prettner

No 125, Department of Economics Working Paper Series from WU Vienna University of Economics and Business

Abstract: This article investigates the effects of introducing demography into the New Economic Geography. We generalize the constructed capital approach, which relies on infinite individual planning horizons, by introducing mortality. The resulting overlapping generation framework with heterogeneous individuals allows us to study the effects of aging on agglomeration processes by analytically identifying the level of trade costs that triggers catastrophic agglomeration. Interestingly, this threshold value is rather sensitive to changes in mortality. In particular, the introduction of a positive mortality rate makes the symmetric equilibrium more stable and therefore counteracts agglomeration tendencies. In sharp contrast to other New Economic Geography approaches, this implies that deeper integration is not necessarily associated with higher interregional inequality.

Keywords: agglomeration; new economic geography; population aging (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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