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Origin of power laws and their spatial fractal structure for city-size distributions
Tomoya Mori, Takashi Akamatsu, Yuki Takayama +1
City-size distributions follow an approximate power law in various countries despite high volatility in relative city sizes over time. Our empirical evidence for the United States…
Cities in a world of diminishing transport costs
Tomoya Mori, Minoru Osawa
Economic activities favor mutual geographical proximity and concentrate spatially to form cities. In a world of diminishing transport costs, however, the advantage of physical prox…
Production externalities and dispersion process in a multi-region economy
Minoru Osawa, José M. Gaspar
We consider an economic geography model with two inter-regional proximity structures: one governing goods trade and the other governing production externalities across regions. We…
Spatial scale of agglomeration and dispersion: Number, spacing, and the spatial extent of cities
Takashi Akamatsu, Tomoya Mori, Minoru Osawa +1
How does transport cost affect the spatial organization of economic activities? This study develops a theoretical framework that distinguishes between two types of dispersion force…