Structural Change and Growth in a NEG model
Title | Structural Change and Growth in a NEG model |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2013 |
Authors | Cerina, F, Mureddu, F |
Journal | Review of Development Economics |
Volume | 17 |
Issue | 2 |
Pagination | 182-200 |
Abstract | This paper presents a New Economic Geography model of structural change, agglomeration and growth. Assuming a non-homothetic preference structure, our results show that a progressive reduction of trade costs allows the economy to pass from a pre-industrialized to an industrialized stage and then, within the latter, from a dispersed to an urbanized regime. However, the introduction of capital accumulation and the dynamic setting of our model opens the door to a richer set of implications. First, an additional stage is introduced as, for some intermediate values of trade costs, a multiple equilibria regime emerges with simultaneously stable symmetric and core-periphery equilibria. Second, the introduction of non-homotheticity introduces a new channel through which growth is affected by trade costs and agglomeration. In particular, integration is always growth-enhancing while agglomeration is growth-detrimental. |
URL | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rode.12026/abstract?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false |
DOI | 10.1111/rode.12026 |
Keywords | agglomeration; aggregate real growth; regional real growth; interregional equity; nontradables; localized knowledge spillovers |