Dascher, Kristof - In: Papers in Regional Science 81 (2002) 1, pp. 49-62
This article is an attempt to explain a capital city's size. We assume away explanations such as exploitation of the … capital city's hinterland. Instead, we emphasise the role of the localisation of government activity (i.e., administration or … legislation) in the capital city for both the capital city economy and the hinterland economy. We assume in the model that larger …