We develop a model for developing countries that investigates the factors behind agglomeration of activities in urban giants. Firstly we show that relatively easier market access to external demand provided by the urban giant tends to attract entrepreneurs to this place. Secondly we find that...

Studies of the economics of state fiscal incentives for the motion picture and television industry lack consistency in methodology. A key inconsistency is the use of differing levels of industry aggregation. This study unpacks aggregate sector multipliers for 48 states and shows how use of...

The widespread proliferation of US state incentives for film and television production led to a large number of evaluations of their economic impacts. The common assumption by economic impact studies that state and film production would not occur without the incentives has spurred interest in...

This paper presents a New Economic Geography model with distortionary taxation and endogenized trade costs. Tax revenues finance a public good, infrastructure. We show that the introduction of costly public investment in infrastructure increases agglomerative tendencies. With respect to the...

High rate of concretization of urban areas presents a challenge to the sustainability of urban farms in Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), as farms are outcompeted to built-up areas for residential and commercial purposes. A major result of this concretization is a growing loss of farmlands in...

The New Economic Geography (NEG) provides a historical explanation for the spatial agglomeration of economic activity. One of its predictions, the ‘wage equation’, relates regional income to market accessibility. Although the NEG is a long-term theory, empirical literature has tested it...

The New Economic Geography (NEG) provides a historical explanation for the spatial agglomeration of economic activity. One of its predictions, the ‘wage equation’, relates regional income to market accessibility. Although the NEG is a long-term theory, empirical literature has tested it...

The New Economic Geography (NEG) provides a historical explanation for the spatial agglomeration of economic activity. One of its predictions, the ‘wage equation’, relates regional income to market accessibility. Although the NEG is a long-term theory, empirical literature has tested it...

The recent rise and distinct geography of populism highlights the need for high resolution data on the economic and political landscapes and improved spatial political economy models that explain their interrelation. This paper shows that divergent development generates political externalities...

We analyze inter-city competition between two cities A and B that use taxes to attract heterogeneous members of the creative class. There are three types of creative class members and each type represents a particular occupation. Irrespective of type or occupation, creative class members value...