On the Emergence of Cities

On the Emergence of Cities (1998)

by Scott E. Page , Paul Krugman

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TITLE	On the Emergence of Cities	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR NAME	Scott E. Page	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Paul Krugman	user correction - Legacy Corrections
ABSTRACT	This paper contains a description of a general class of city formation models. Individual economic agents have preferences for locations that depend upon the population distribution. A location's attractiveness depends upon some combination of its population and its average distance to other agents. Economic variables enter indirectly. Taking this broad perspective leads to a deeper understanding of how cities form as well as of the sensitivity to initial conditions of their locations and sizes. In addition, this class of models supports scenarios where cities emerge: without any assumptions that agents wish to live near or with one another, agents cluster into cities. Department of Economics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242. I would like to thank Jenna Bednar, Paul Krugman, and James Pierce as well as seminar participants at Caltech for comments on earlier versions of this paper. I would also like to thank the MacArthur Foundation for financial support. 1 Introduction In...	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	1998	user correction - Legacy Corrections
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