Spatial frictions

Kristian Behrens; Giordano Mion; Yasusada Murata; Jens Suedekum

The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the spatial economy? We develop and quantify a novel framework to address this question at three different levels: Do spatial frictions matter for the city-size distribution? Do they affect individual city sizes? Do they contribute to the productivity advantage of large cities and the toughness of competition in cities? The short answers are: no; yes; and it depends.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Behrens, Kristian ; Mion, Giordano ; Murata, Yasusada ; Südekum, Jens
Publisher:	Düsseldorf : DICE
Subject:	trade frictions \| urban frictions \| city-size distribution \| productivity \| markups \| Produktivität \| Productivity \| Stadtgröße \| City size \| Mark-up Pricing \| Mark-up pricing \| Stadt \| Town \| Unvollkommener Markt \| Incomplete market \| Regionalökonomik \| Regional economics

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (39, XXIV S.) graph. Darst., Kt.
Series:	DICE discussion paper. - Düsseldorf, Germany : düsseldorf university press, ISSN 2190-9938, ZDB-ID 2578649-0. - Vol. 160
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
ISBN:	978-3-86304-159-5
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/102561 [Handle]
Classification:	F12 - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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