打印

作者

来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.111,P.1-13

语言

英文

关键字

Central place; Spatial externality; Congestion; Urban hierarchy; CENTRAL PLACE THEORY; AGGLOMERATION; EQUILIBRIA; KNOWLEDGE; EVOLUTION

作者单位

[de Palma, Andre] Univ Paris Saclay, ENS Cachan, CREST, Paris, France. [Papageorgiou, Yorgos Y.] McMaster Univ, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada. [Thisse, Jacques-Francois] CORE UCLouvain, Louvain, Belgium. [Ushchev, Philip] Monash Univ, Clayton, Vic, Australia. [Thisse, Jacques-Francois; Ushchev, Philip] HSE Univ, Moscow, Russia. [Thisse, Jacques-Francois] CEPR, London, England. de Palma, A (reprint author), Univ Paris Saclay, ENS Cachan, CREST, Paris, France. E-Mail: andre.depalma@ens-cachan.fr; yorgos@mcmaster.ca; jacques.thisse@uclouvain.be; ph.ushchev@gmail.com

摘要

We provide a bare-bones framework that uncovers the circumstances which lead either to the emergence of equally-spaced and equally-sized central places or to a hierarchy of central places. We show how these patterns reflect the preferences of agents and the efficiency of transportation and communication technologies. With one population of homogeneous individuals, the economy is characterized by a uniform distribution or by a periodic distribution of central places having the same size. The interaction between two distinct populations may give rise to a hierarchy of central places with one or several primate cities.