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Spatial Agglomeration Dynamics

Danny  Quah,  March 2002
Paper No' CEPDP0521: | Full paper

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Keywords: cluster; continuous space, convergence, distribution dynamics, growth, knowledge, saddlepath dynamics, spatial spillovers, spatial inequality

JEL Classification: D30;O10;O41

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This Paper is published under the following series: CEP Discussion Papers

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Abstract:

This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3-dimensional featureless global geography. The same economic forces influence simulataneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering. Economic activity is not concentrated on discrete isolated points but instead a dynamically-fluctuating, smotth spatial distribution. Spatial inequality is a Cass-Koopmans saddlepath, and the global distribution of economic activity converges towards egalitarian growth. Equality is stable but spatial inequality is needed to attain it.