Adjustment Costs and Long Run Spatial Agglomerations
17 Pages Posted: 30 Aug 2013
Date Written: August 29, 2013
Abstract
We introduce knowledge spillovers as an externality in the production function of competitive firms operating in a finite spatial domain under adjustment costs. Spillovers are spatial as productive knowledge flows more easily among firms located nearby. When knowledge spillovers are not internalized by firms spatial agglomerations may emerge endogenously in a competitive equilibrium, however, they do not emerge at the steady state of the social optimum.
Keywords: Investment Theory, Adjustment Costs, Spatial Agglomerations
JEL Classification: D21, R3, C61
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Brock, William A. and Xepapadeas, Anastasios and Yannacopoulos, Athanasios, Adjustment Costs and Long Run Spatial Agglomerations (August 29, 2013). FEEM Working Paper No. 68.2013. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2317908 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2317908
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