Journal article
Agglomeration Effects and the Competition for Firms
Abstract
A two-region economy consists of a given but different number of immobile workers in each region, and a given number of mobile firms. Firms create jobs where they locate, but there is frictional unemployment. Two sorts of agglomeration effects arise: those from economies of scale in matching, and those from production economies external to the firm. Regions may either be part of a unitary state in which case all regional policies are decided by …
Authors
Boadway R; Cuff K; Marceau N
Journal
International Tax and Public Finance, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 623–645
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
September 2004
DOI
10.1023/b:itax.0000036694.48277.c1
ISSN
0927-5940