For two decades new economic geography has focused on `macro-heterogeneity? across locations showing how this can be endogenously generated by the microeconomic decisions of identical people and firms. This paper argues that future research should look more deeply into finer `micro-heterogeneity? across people and firms, shedding light on how the interactions between the two levels of heterogeneity affect the existence and the intensity of agglomeration economies.

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1 March 2011

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Journal of Economic Geography 11(2) , pp.231?240, 2011

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DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbq041

https://academic.oup.com/joeg/article/11/2/231/1165620

This Journal article is published under the centre's Trade programme.