also uneven across space, it also seems relevant to wonder about the effects of the geographic agglomeration of economic … activity. Moreover, it seems relevant to consider not only the levels of inequality and agglomeration, but also their change … specifications and introducing different measures for agglomeration at country level, especially urbanization and urban concentration …

the recent emphasis on agglomeration effects and divergence. The population flows to urban centers do not generate growth …

increasing returns to scale, transport costs, congestion costs, and migration. In result, the agglomeration pattern might be … catastrophic or smooth depending on congestion costs. The transition between both patterns is smooth. …

economy with an urban location and a rural one. Agglomeration economies make urban dwellers benefit from a larger population …, congestion costs associated with a too large population size limit the process of urban-rural transformation. Firms in the urban … equilibrium the urban location is inefficiently small because households fail to internalize the agglomeration economies and the …

There is a large literature on the existence of agglomeration economies, as shown in the surveys by Moomaw (1983) or …

emphasized in the New Economic Geography (NEG) literature. Both growth and agglomeration processes are, however, themselves … uncertainty impacts upon growth and agglomeration. The main results are twofold. First, nonzero mortality rates support a more … equal distribution of productive factors by introducing an additional dispersion force that countervails the agglomeration …