The economic and social development of nations relies on their population having physical access to services and employment opportunities. For the vast majority of the 3.4 billion people living in rural locations, this largely depends on their access to urban centers of different sizes....

This paper considers supply decisions by firms in a dynamic setting with adjustment costsand compares the behavior of an optimal control model to that of a rule-based system whichrelaxes the assumption that agents are explicit optimizers. In our approach, the economicagent uses believably simple...