Complexity and Geographical Economics: Topics and Tools

ISBN-13: 9783319128047 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 377 str.

Pasquale Commendatore; Saime Suna Kayam; Ingrid Kubin

Opis

The uneven geographical distribution of economic activities is a huge challenge worldwide and also for the European Union. In Krugman's New Economic Geography economic systems have a simple spatial structure. This book shows that more sophisticated models should visualise the EU as an evolving trade network with a specific topology and different aggregation levels. At the highest level, economic geography models give a bird eye's view of spatial dynamics. At a medium level, institutions shape the economy and the structure of (financial and labour) markets. At the lowest level, individual decisions interact with the economic, social and institutional environment; the focus is on firms' decision on location and innovation. Such multilevel models exhibit complex dynamic patterns - path dependence, cumulative causation, hysteresis - on a network structure; and specific analytic tools are necessary for studying strategic interaction, heterogeneity and nonlinearities.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Part A. Economic Geography Modelling.- Part B. Institutions and Markets.- Part C. Industrial Interactions.