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New Economic Geography: Past and Future

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This chapter does not aim to survey what has been accomplished in new economic geography (NEG) since the publication of Paul Krugman’s seminal paper. Rather, we provide an overview of recent developments in the NEG literature that build on the idea that the difference in the economic performance of regions is explained by the behavior and interactions between households and firms located within them. This means that we consider NEG models which take into account land markets, thereby the internal structure and industrial mix of urban agglomerations.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. INRA, UMR1302 SMART, 4 Allée Bobierre, 35000, Rennes, France

    Carl Gaigné

  2. CORE, Universite catholique de Louvain, 1, Place de l’Université, Louvain–la–Neuve, Belgium

    Dr. Jacques-François Thisse

  3. CMSE, NRU–Higher School of Economics, Saint–Petersburg, Russia

    Dr. Jacques-François Thisse

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  1. Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

    Manfred M. Fischer

  2. and Business Administration Department of Spatial Economics, Free University Faculty of Economics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter Nijkamp

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Gaigné, C., Thisse, JF. (2014). New Economic Geography: Past and Future. In: Fischer, M., Nijkamp, P. (eds) Handbook of Regional Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23430-9_31

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