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Spatial Agglomeration Dynamics

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Quah, Danny

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This Paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3-dimensional featureless global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering. Economic activity is not concentrated on discrete isolated points but instead a dynamically-fluctuating, smooth 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.

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Keywords: cluster continuous space convergence distribution dynamics globalization growth Knowledge saddlepath dynamics spatial inequality spatial spillovers

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