Governmental activity, integration, and agglomeration

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This paper analyzes, within a regional growth model, the impact of productive governmental policy and integration on the spatial distribution of economic activity. Integration is understood as enhancing territorial cooperation between the regions, and it describes the extent to which one region may benefit from the other region's public input, e.g. the extent to which regional road networks are connected. Both integration and the characteristics of the public input crucially affect whether agglomeration arises and if so to which extent economic activity is concentrated: As a consequence of enhanced integration, agglomeration is less likely to arise and concentration will be lower. Relative congestion reinforces agglomeration, thereby increasing equilibrium concentration. Due to the congestion externalities, the market outcome ends up in suboptimally high concentration.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1465

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Thema: Public inputs ; agglomeration ; integration ; Infrastrukturinvestition ; Verkehrserschließung ; Regionales Wachstum ; Agglomerationseffekt ; Regionale Konzentration ; Räumliche Interaktion ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Ott, Ingrid ; Soretz, Susanne
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
• (wo): Kiel
• (wann): 2008

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24862
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ