Over the past 30 years, the share of adult populations with college degrees increased more in cities with higher initial schooling levels than in initially less educated places. This tendency appears to be driven by shifts in labor demand as there is an increasing wage premium for skilled people...

The focus of the Japanese local telecommunications policy is shifting towards solving the problem of the digital divide that accompanies the spread of high-speed and broadband services. The article estimates a translog cost function of two outputs - the standard telephone service and the leased...

We consider the literature on urban systems and New Economic Geography to examine questions concerning agglomeration and how areas respond to shocks to the economic environment. We first propose a diagrammatic framework to compare the two approaches. We then use this framework to study a number...

The aim of this article is to show the main determinants of industrial location processes. To better illustrate phenomena such as agglomeration economies, which are normally studied at the regional level, we use local data. We use the Poisson model to identify the location patterns of firms. Our...

We consider two models of a system of cities in which landlords have some power in negotiating rental prices at which land is rented to develop cities. Analysis shows that the equilibrium city size is smaller than the optimal city size in a model in which city sizes are controlled by development...

This article analyses the role of parking lots in spatial agglomeration. We set up a spatial competitive monopolistic model of agglomeration. In their shopping trips, households travel by car to a parking lot from where they proceed on foot to do their shopping. We also show that the presence of...

This article studies the impact of the death of geographical distance brought about by e-marketplaces on market equilibrium and social welfare. A partial equilibrium model for an economy with and without e-marketplaces is developed. It is shown that e-marketplaces lower the price level and...

This article describes the impact and influence of the book, "Studies in the Economics of Transportation", by M. Beckmann, C.B. McGuire and C.B. Winsten, published in 1956 by Yale University Press. Our focus is on the book's impacts on innovations in modeling, methodological developments and...

A classification of the locational patterns of firms (with economies of scale and scope present) is outlined in order to shed light on the location of the multiplant, multinational firm, which is driven by three forces: spatial economies of scale and scope that follow from the co-location of...