Economic Analysis of Industrial Agglomeration

ISBN-13: 9789811356346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 96 str.

Jian Wang

Spis treści

1 Introduction.- 2 Review of New Economic Geography.- 3 Industrial Agglomeration: A Simulation Model.- 4 Industrial Dispersion: An Analytical Model.- 5 Home Market Effect: New Evidence from China.- 6 Conclusions.

O autorze

Jian Wang is currently assistant professor at the SHU-UTS SILC Business School, Shanghai University. He received his doctorate from Ritsumeikan University, Japan. Dr. Wang’s main research areas of interest are international trade, economic geography, urban economics and environmental economics. His academic papers have been published in Energy Policy, The Annals of Regional Science, Review of Urban and Regional Developments Studies.

Wang, J., Lv, K., Bian, Y and Cheng, Y. 2017.  Energy efficiency and marginal carbon dioxide emission abatement cost in urban China. Energy Policy. Vol.105. pp. 246–255.

Wang, J and Xu, J. 2015. Home market effect, spatial wages disparity: an empirical reinvestigation of China. The Annals of Regional Science, Vol. 55 No.2.pp.313–333. 

Wang, J and Zheng,  X. 2013. Industrial agglomeration: Asymmetry of regions and trade costs. Review of Urban and Regional Developments Studies, Vol.25 No.2. pp. 61-78. 

Wang, J and Zheng, X. 2013. “Agglomeration and dispersion of the gate region and hinterland”, Ritsumeikan Economic Review, Vol. 62 No.1.pp.39-60.

Blurb

This book investigates the industrial agglomeration and dispersion within a country under trade liberalization and interregional integration by considering both economic forces and geographical elements. Chapter 1 gives a brief introduction about the background, research topics and organizations in this book. Chapter 2 provides a detailed explanation of Krugman’s new economic geography (NEG) model and reviews the subsequent refinements of the original model from mainly geographical viewpoints. Chapter 3 extends Krugman’s original model to a two-country and three-region case where the domestic regions are fully asymmetrical in terms of their sizes and accessibilities to global markets. To better explain the reality of developing countries, chapter 4 presents an analytical model which assumes that unskilled workers are employed in both traditional and manufacturing sectors. Chapter 5 empirically investigates the home market effect (HME) in terms of wages in the case of China by using panel data for the period 1980–2012. Chapter 6 gives a summary and implication about the findings and conclusions in this book.