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Transport Development and the Evolution of Economic Geography

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  • Fujita, Masahisa
  • Mori, Tomoya

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In this paper, based on the recent advances in the new economic geography (e.g., Fujita, Krugman and Venables [12]), we analyze impacts of transport costs on the spatial patterns of economic agglomeration. We first identify prototypes from the existing models, and explain the mechanism of how transport costs influence the balance between economic forces of agglomeration and dispersion. We then investigate the transformation of the agglomeration/dispersion patterns given gradually decreasing transport costs for different goods.

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  • Fujita, Masahisa & Mori, Tomoya, 2005. "Transport Development and the Evolution of Economic Geography," IDE Discussion Papers 21, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO).
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    Keywords

    New economic geography; Transport cost; Industrial belt; Transportation; Costs; Geography; Industrial structure; Economic geography; 運送; コスト; 地理学; 産業構造; 経済地理;
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    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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