This paper serves as an orientation towards the understanding of some of the contributions
and theoretical limitations in New Economic Geography and seeks to provide a prospective …

With the rapid development of economy and society, the urbanization process is speeding
up in China. Thereupon, several large-size urban agglomerations (or city groups) have …

We investigate the role of competitive transport markets in shaping the location of economic
activity and the pattern of trade. In our model, carriers supply transport services for shipping …

We examine how interaction choices depend on the interplay of social and physical
distance, and show that agents who are more central in the social network, or are located …

The progress of spatial agglomeration of Krugman's core–periphery model is investigated by
comparative static analysis of stable equilibria with respect to transport costs. We set forth …

We provide an analytical approach that facilitates understanding the bifurcation mechanism
of a wide class of economic models involving spatial agglomeration of economic activities …

Social interactions are at the essence of societies and explain the gathering of individuals in
villages, agglomerations, or cities. We study the emergence of multiple agglomerations as …

This paper shows the equivalence of spatial inequalities in industrial location and in income
by revisiting the home market effect (HME) without any homogeneous good based on a …

Self-organization of agglomeration patterns for economic models in a two-dimensional
economic space is studied from a multi-disciplinary viewpoint of new economic geography …

This paper explores the conditions for the emergence of a system of cities in a general
equilibrium setting that accounts for the mobility of labor, transportation costs between cities …