History versus Expectations in Economic Geography Reconsidered
History versus Expectations in Economic Geography Reconsidered
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DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.1008473
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发表时间:
2008-06
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通讯作者:
Daisuke Oyama
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作者:
Daisuke Oyama
This paper studies global stability of spatial configurations in a dynamic two-region model with quadratic adjustment costs where rational migrants make migration decisions so as to maximize their discounted future utilities. A global analysis is conducted to show that, except for knife-edge cases with symmetric regions, there exists a unique spatial configuration that is absorbing and globally accessible whenever the degree of friction is sufficiently small, and such a configuration is characterized as the unique maximizer of the potential function of the underlying static model.