An energy-centric theory of agglomeration

被引：3

作者：

Moreno-Cruz, Juan ^{[1
]}

Taylor, M. Scott ^{[2
,3
,4
,5
]}

机构：

[1] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Econ, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA

[2] Univ Calgary, Dept Econ, Econ & Canada Res Chair, Calgary, AB, Canada

[3] NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[4] Beijer Inst Ecol Econom, Stockholm, Sweden

[5] Ifo Inst, Munich, Germany

来源：

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT | 2017年 / 84卷

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Energy; Geography; Agglomeration; Economic history; EXPLORATION; RESOURCES; GEOGRAPHY;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jeem.2017.02.006

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

This paper sets out a simple spatial model of energy exploitation to ask how the location and productivity of energy resources affects the distribution of economic activity across geographic space. By combining elements from energy economics and economic geography we link the productivity of energy resources to the incentives for economic activity to agglomerate. We find a novel scaling law links the productivity of energy resources to population sizes, while rivers and roads effectively magnify productivity. We show how our theory's predictions concerning a single core, aggregate to predictions over regional landscapes and city size distributions at the country level. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：153 / 172

页数：20

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