Spatial Knowledge Spillovers and the Dynamics of Agglomeration and Regional Growth (Paperback)

Introduction and Motivation: Background of the Analysis; Contribution of the Book.- Why and How Does Economic Activity Grow? An Overview of the Literature: Introduction; A Summary of the Neoclassical Growth Theory; Implications of the Neoclassical Growth Thory for Regional Growth; Summary and Conclusion.- Why and How Does Economic Activity Concentrate in Space? Another Overview of the Literature: Introduction; The Role of Transportation Costs; The Role of Spatial Externalities in Production; Summary and Conclusion.- Spatial Knowledge Spillovers and the Dynamics of Agglomeration and Regional Growth: Introduction; Positive External Effects in Production. Properties and Implementation; The Model; Marshallian Externalities and the Convergence of Regions; Summary and Conclusion.- Marshallian Externalities, Spatial Self-Organization and Regional Growth - An Agent-Based Approach: Introduction; Who Organizes the Economy? Cellular Automata as a Tool for Modelling Local Economic Interaction; Local Interaction and the Dynamics of Agglomeration; Simulation Results; Summary and Conclusion.- Spatial Processes in the Economy - An Empirical Investigatio n: Introduction; Data: Sources and Construction; Spatial Econometrics - An Overview; Empirical Implementation of the Model and Results; Summary and Conclusion .- Summary and Conclusion: Generalization of the Model Developed in Chapter 4; Mathematical Appendix; Data .