We examine the effects of tax base sharing on the growth path of an economy in which central and regional governments provide heterogeneous educational services (general and specific training) which increase capital productivity. Our focus is the non co-operative game between two overlapping...

This article develops a method for analysing the distribution of urban facilities in terms of accessibility. The method treats facility accessibility in the spatiotemporal dimension, as it depends on both spatial and temporal factors, that is, the location and opening hours of facilities. The...

This article investigates the role played by geography in the promotion of innovation. In order to examine these issues we employ empirical data from Finland in order to test the extent to which the variety and nature of face-to-face contacts affects the innovation performance of the firm. In...

The productivity of knowledge workers (the ""H" people") relative to that of unskilled workers (the ""L" people") could warrant that a region formulate economic development policies in order to raise this ratio via the in-migration of skilled labour. This article presents a theoretical model...

The article examines the performance of two competing non-nested models of regional wage variations in Great Britain, one motivated by the Solow-Swann neoclassical growth model which assumes constant returns to scale, the other by new economic geography theory, which assumes internal and...

This article examines two specification issues common to spatial econometric population-employment growth models: the specification of the weight matrix and the dynamic stability implied by estimated lag parameters. Using data on Orange County census tracts from 1980 to 1990, we estimate a...

Elasticities are estimated for long-run solutions of Markov chains of income distribution for the European regions. The results indicate that there will be no major changes in these long-run solutions for lower income states in the Markov chain and that effects on higher income states will be...

This article presents an overview of the recent development in the new economic geography (NEG), and discusses possible directions of its future development. Since several surveys on this topic already exist, we focus on the selected features of NEG which are important yet have attracted...

Research on spatial price discrimination demonstrates that strategic (off centre) location choices by downstream firms can increase downstream profit and reduce both the profit of an upstream monopoly and social welfare. This article examines exclusive territories as a vertical control mechanism...

This article develops a duopoly model in which consumers are uniformly distributed along three sides (streets) of a triangular park and each consumer walks across the park in the shortest way to the lowest-price firm to buy one unit of a product. Two important findings emerge from our analysis....