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On spatial equilibria in a social interaction model

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  • MOSSAY, Pascal

    () (School of Economics, Henley Business School, University of Reading, U.K.)

  • PICARD, Pierre M.

    () (SoSS, University of Manchester, U.K. and Université catholique de Louvain (UCL). Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE))

Abstract

Social interactions are at the essence of societies and explain the gathering of individuals in villages, agglomerations, or cities. We study the emergence of multiple agglomerations as resulting from the interplay between spatial interaction externalities and competition in the land market. We show that the geographical nature of the residential space tremendously affects the properties of spatial equilibria. In particular, when agents locate on an open land strip (line segment), a single city emerges in equilibrium. In contrast, when the spatial economy extends along a closed land strip (circumference), multiple equilibria with odd numbers of cities arise. Spatial equilibrium configurations involve a high degree of spatial symmetry in terms of city size and location, and can be Pareto-ranked.

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Paper provided by Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) in its series CORE Discussion Papers with number 2009063.

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Date of creation: 01 Oct 2009
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Keywords: social interaction; multiple agglomerations; spatial economy;

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