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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298185703321

Autore

Wang Jian

Titolo

Economic Analysis of Industrial Agglomeration [[electronic resource] /] / by Jian Wang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

981-10-7437-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 96 p. 28 illus.)

Disciplina

381

Soggetti

Trade

Business

Commerce

Economic geography

Industrial organization

Economic Geography

Industrial Organization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction -- 2 Review of New Economic Geography -- 3 Industrial Agglomeration: A Simulation Model -- 4 Industrial Dispersion: An Analytical Model -- 5 Home Market Effect: New Evidence from China -- 6 Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book investigates the industrial agglomeration and dispersion within a country under trade liberalization and interregional integration by considering both economic forces and geographical elements. Chapter 1 gives a brief introduction about the background, research topics and organizations in this book. Chapter 2 provides a detailed explanation of Krugman’s new economic geography (NEG) model and reviews the subsequent refinements of the original model from mainly geographical viewpoints. Chapter 3 extends Krugman’s original model to a two-country and three-region case where the domestic regions are fully asymmetrical in terms of their sizes and accessibilities to global markets. To better explain the reality of developing countries, chapter 4 presents an analytical model which assumes that unskilled workers are employed in both traditional and manufacturing sectors. Chapter 5



empirically investigates the home market effect (HME) in terms of wages in the case of China by using panel data for the period 1980–2012. Chapter 6 gives a summary and implication about the findings and conclusions in this book.