Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46880 
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Year of Publication: 
1996
Citation: 
[Publisher:] Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) [Place:] Kiel [Year:] 1996
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 762
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper presents an economic geography model to show the spatial effects of economic integration. While other authors mainly focused on the explanation of cumulative causation effects that lead to complete concentration or absolutely equal dispersion of industries, this paper explains why limits to industrial agglomeration can be observed in reality. It argues that cumulative causation effects can be counterbalanced by further centrifugal forces such as land rents, adverse self-fulfilling expectations and congestion effects. For large scale agglomerations, congestion effects may be the most relevant force that stop a cumulative trend towards complete concentration caused by scale economies and trade costs.
Subjects: 
Economic Geography
Agglomeration
Congestion
Location Theory
JEL: 
F12
R12
Document Type: 
Working Paper
Document Version: 
Digitized Version

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