Directional imbalance in transport prices and economic geography
Directional imbalance in transport prices and economic geography
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jue.2010.08.003
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发表时间:
2011-01-01
影响因子:
6.3
通讯作者:
Takahashi, Takaaki
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作者:
Takahashi, Takaaki
This paper examines how and why transport prices become imbalanced with respect to the direction of shipments and how this affects economic geography It is shown that the equilibrium transport price of the shipment in a particular direction is a nondecreasing function of the relative size of the embarkation region Furthermore we show that the directional Imbalance in transport prices increases the likelihood of the symmetric pattern being stable and decreases the likelihood of the core-periphery patterns being sustainable In short the imbalance acts as a dispersion force (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc All rights reserved