摘要:We develop a diagrammatic framework that can be used to study the economic
linkages between regions or cities. Hitherto, such linkages have not been the
primary focus of either the theoretical or empirical literatures. We show that
our general framework can be used to interpret both the New Economic Geography
and Urban Systems literatures to help us understand spatial economic linkages.
We then extend the theoretical framework to allow us to consider a number of
additional issues which may be particularly important for analyzing the impact
of policy. Such policy analysis will also require empirical work to identify the
nature of key relationships. In a final section, we consider what the existing
empirical literature can tell us about these relationships.
关键词:Spatial linkages, Urban systems, New Economic Geography, Urban and regional
policy