Spatial frictions

Arbeitspapier

The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the spatial economy? We develop and quantify a novel framework to address this question at three different levels: Do spatial frictions matter for the city-size distribution? Do they affect individual city sizes? Do they contribute to the productivity advantage of large cities and the toughness of competition in cities? The short answers are: no; yes; and it depends.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN: 978-3-86304-159-5

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: DICE Discussion Paper ; No. 160

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
• Thema: trade frictions ; urban frictions ; city-size distribution ; productivity ; markups

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Behrens, Kristian ; Mion, Giordano ; Murata, Yasusada ; Suedekum, Jens
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
• (wo): Düsseldorf
• (wann): 2014

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/102561
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ