A Centered Index of Spatial Concentration: Axiomatic Approach with an Application to Population and Capital Cities

• Main Authors: CAMPANTE, Filipe R., DO, Quoc-Anh
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
• 主題: Spatial Concentration; Population Concentration; Capital Cities; Gravity; CRRA; Harmonic Functions; Axiomatics.; Econometrics; Macroeconomics; Public Economics
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1136; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2135/viewcontent/CampanteDoDec2008CISC.pdf
• 機構: Singapore Management University

We construct an axiomatic index of spatial concentration around a center or capital point of interest, a concept with wide applicability from urban economics, economic geography and trade, to political economy and industrial organization. We propose basic axioms (decomposability and monotonicity) an...