An Energy-centric Theory of Agglomeration

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An Energy-centric Theory of Agglomeration

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ID	4266067
Digital Object Identifier DOI	10.1016/j.jeem.2017.02.006
Author(s)	Moreno-Cruz, Juan; Taylor, M. Scott
Author(s) at UniBasel	Moreno-Cruz, Juan
Year	2017
Month and day	01-01
Title	An Energy-centric Theory of Agglomeration
Series title	WWZ Working Papers
Volume	2017
Number	01
Pages	49
Publisher / Institution	WWZ, University of Basel
Abstract	This paper sets out a simple spatial model of energy exploitation to ask how the lo-cation and productivity of energy resources affects the distribution of economic activityacross geographic space. By combining elements from energy economics and economicgeography we link the productivity of energy resources to the incentives for economicactivity to agglomerate. We fnd a novel scaling law links the productivity of energyresources to population sizes, while rivers and roads effectively magnify productivity.We show how our theory's predictions concerning a single core, aggregate to predictionsover regional landscapes and city size distributions at the country level.
edoc-URL	https://edoc.unibas.ch/61316/
Full Text on edoc	Available
ISI-Number	WOS:000404196800008

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