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

• Main Authors: CAMPANTE, Filipe R., DO, Quoc-Anh
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
• Subjects: Spatial Concentration; Population Concentration; Capital Cities; Gravity; CRRA; Harmonic Functions; Axiomatics.; Econometrics; Macroeconomics; Public Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1136; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2135/viewcontent/CampanteDoDec2008CISC.pdf
• Institution: 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...