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标题：Environmental Policy, Spatial Spillovers and the Emergence of Economic Agglomerations
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作者：Kyriakopoulou, Efthymia ; Xepapadeas, Anastasios
期刊名称：Journal of Food Distribution Research
印刷版ISSN：0047-245X
出版年度：2009
卷号：40
期号：10
出版社：Food Distribution Research Society
摘要：We explain the spatial concentration of economic activity, in a model of economic geography, when the cost of environmental policy - which is increasing in the concentration of emissions - and an immobile production factor act as centrifugal forces, while positive knowledge spillovers and iceberg transportation costs act as centripetal forces. We study the agglomeration effects caused by trade-offs between centripetal and centrifugal forces. The above effects govern firms’ location decisions and as a result, they define the distribution of economic activity across space. We derive the rational expectations equilibrium and the social optimum, compare the outcomes and characterize the optimal spatial policies.
关键词：Agglomeration;Spatial Economics;Environmental Policy;Knowledge Spillovers;Transportation Cost