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Optimal Cities with Indivisibility in Production and Interactions Between Firms

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  • Yoshitsugu Kanemoto

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A spatial model of cities is constructed by combining interaction costs between firms with indivisibility in production. The optimal allocation requires Pigouvian subsidies to firms and the externality version of the Henry George Theorem is obtained: at the optimal city size, the total Pigouvian subsidy equals the total differential land rent in a city. We also obtain conditions under which monocentric configuration is optimal and perform comparative statics concerning changes in various parameters on the optimal city size.

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  • Yoshitsugu Kanemoto, 1985. "Optimal Cities with Indivisibility in Production and Interactions Between Firms," Working Paper 597, Economics Department, Queen's University.
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    1. Yoshitsugu Kanemoto, 2011. "Second-Best Cost?Benefit Analysis with a Microfoundation of Urban Agglomeration," GRIPS Discussion Papers 11-03, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
    2. F Wang & J-M Guldmann, 1997. "A Spatial Equilibrium Model for Region Size, Urbanization Ratio, and Rural Structure," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 29(5), pages 929-941, May.
    3. Berg, Nathan, 2008. "Imitation in location choice," MPRA Paper 26592, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Sabyasachi TRIPATHI, 2014. "Estimating Urban Agglomeration Economies for India: A New Economic Geography Perspective," Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, Research Centre in Public Administration and Public Services, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 9(2), pages 5-34, May.
    5. Kanemoto, Yoshitsugu, 2013. "Second-best cost–benefit analysis in monopolistic competition models of urban agglomeration," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 83-92.
    6. Ito, Junichi, 2002. "Why TVES have contributed to interregional imbalances in China," EPTD discussion papers 91, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    7. Andrei Bazhanov & John Hartwick, 2007. "On Beckmann's Dispersed "interaction City"," Working Paper 1170, Economics Department, Queen's University.
    8. Tomoya Mori, 2018. "Spatial Pattern and City Size Distribution," KIER Working Papers 996, Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research.
    9. Yoshitsugu Kanemoto, 2012. "Cost-Benefit Analysis in Monopolistic Competition Models of Urban Agglomeration," GRIPS Discussion Papers 12-04, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
    10. Jun Oshiro, 2017. "Solitary City: Time, Space and Urban Policy," Manchester School, University of Manchester, vol. 85(6), pages 744-764, December.
    11. Bazhanov, Andrei & Hartwick, John, 2006. "Dispersed Interactions of Urban Residents," MPRA Paper 766, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    12. Kono, Tatsuhito & Nakajima, Kentaro & Ozane, Kanta, 2023. "Quantitative Impact Analysis of the Centralization of Firms in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area Considering Firm-to-Firm Trade Networks," MPRA Paper 117594, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    JEL classification:

    • L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
    • L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
    • L68 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - Appliances; Furniture; Other Consumer Durables

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