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| Title: | | Schelling's spatial proximity model of segregation revisited  |
| Authors: | | Pancs, Romans Vriend, Nicolaas J. |
| Issue Date: | | 2003 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working Paper, Department of Economics, Queen Mary, University of London 487 |
| Abstract: | | Schelling [1969, 1971a, 1971b, 1978] presented a microeconomic model showing how an integrated city could unravel to a rather segregated city, notwithstanding relatively mild assumptions concerning the individual agents' preferences, i.e., no agent preferring the resulting segregation. We examine the robustness of Schelling's model, focusing in particular on its driving force: the individual preferences. We show that even if all individual agents have a strict preference for perfect integration, best-response dynamics will lead to segregation. What is more, we argue that the one-dimensional and two-dimensional versions of Schelling's spatial proximity model are in fact two qualitatively very different models of segregation. |
| Subjects: | | Neighborhood segregation, Myopic Nash Equilibria, Best-response dynamics, Markov chain, Limit-behavior |
| JEL: | | C72 C73 D62 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Paper Series, School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary, University of London
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