We live in a quite heterogeneous space. There are cities and rural areas, and population density varies a lot across space. People migrate and commute to the places of their work. The goal of this article is to clarify the mechanism of commuting as an equilibrium in heterogeneous space with...

The goal of this paper is theoretical analysis of the complex process of agglomeration of firms in space when cities are also competing for them. Positive spillovers tend firms to locate in the same area, while congestion effects limit this process. Thus, for any given city there exists an...

The paper is devoted to analytical investigation of the division of geographical space into urban and rural areas with application to Russia. Yegorov (2005, 2006, 2009) has suggested the role of population density on economics. A city has an attractive potential based on scale economies. The...

What will come first ? non-acceptable global warming or extinction of oil reserves? Both processes can bring substantial costs to the mankind, but their order has important economic implications. The answer to this question will either lower oil price in the long run or will lead to its further...

The paper addresses an important issue of pricing mechanisms is spatially distributed systems with losses, with an application to water supply system. When losses from delivery are high, the asymmetry of spatial location of consumers plays an important role, which is captured by the model. The...

The goal of this paper is to link models of urban formations (urban studies) with models of housing rent. While housing market models are essentially static, model of urban formation is presented in dynamic set up. The driving force for dynamics comes from migration theory and includes chain...

The goal of this work is to suggest a mechanism explaining different spatial patterns of residential locations. The basic idea is counterbalance of centripetal and centrifugal forces. This paper complements the previous author's works in this area. This article addresses the following questions:...