The ‘new economic geography’ models the centripetal forces that foster geographic concentration and agglomeration against the centrifugal forces such as immobile factors (including land, natural resources, and people) (Krugman 1998). Several ‘modeling tricks’ are used to arrive at an equilibrium sol...
The canonical model of the new economic geography was developed by Krugman (1991b) and is now known as the “core-periphery model”.64 In some sense this model is diametrical to the models of trade and migration that we have used above. The numbers of factors and goods is reduced to ...
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The higher the point-in degree of a province means that the more “resources” the province can absorb to resist external economic shocks, the more talent, capital and other factors can be gathered to recover from economic shocks as soon as possible, and the provinces that are experiencing ...
One such definition is given by Aoyama et al. (2011): eco- nomic geography studies geographically specific factors that shape economic processes and iden- tify key agents (such as firms, labour and the state) and drivers (such as innovation, institutions, entrepreneurship and accessibility) that...
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A leading cause of fluctuations in the economy is changes in macroeconomic factors such as productivity and employment. Another cause is changes in aggregate demand and supply.What are Economic Fluctuations? National and global economies are never static, instead, they are dynamic, meaning they are ...
Definition of Economy Economy-The way that goods services are produced & distributed. Traditional Economy Traditional Economies, found in rural regions, practice subsistence farming. Different World Economies Economic Geography. TWO SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT Power to the People or Many Power to the ...
For an analysis of historical changes in economic freedom see Sobel (2017), and for a review and analysis of the factors underlying differences in subnational (state and provincial) economic freedom scores see Sobel (2021). For other examples see Gallup and Sachs (1998), Hall and Jones (1999...
Economic geography models often generate spatial inequalities by combining increasing returns to scale with mobile factors of production. Spatial inequalities also arise from the combination of diminishing returns with an uneven distribution of immobile natural advantages. Fragmentation of a continent into cou...