New Economic Geography and Reunified Germany at Twenty: A Fruitful Match?

Autor:	Eckhardt Bode, Frank Bickenbach
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	German Economic integration Bell curve Stylized fact Geography Planning and Development Pooling Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) language Economics Economic geography Statistics Probability and Uncertainty General Economics Econometrics and Finance language.human_language
Zdroj:	Spatial Economic Analysis. 8:120-153
ISSN:	1742-1780 1742-1772
DOI:	10.1080/17421772.2012.760132
Popis:	We qualitatively match new economic geography (NEG) to stylized facts on German economic integration after 1989. We find that NEG may explain German integration reasonably well. Germany may currently be close to the peak of the bell curve, which describes the long-run relationship between integration and agglomeration in Germany. As a consequence, further economic integration between the two parts of Germany may eventually foster redispersion of economic activity toward East Germany. We also identify limitations of NEG for explaining German integration, most notably the analytical complexity of multi-region models and its neglect of knowledge spillovers and labour pooling. RESUME Nous etablissons une correspondance qualitative entre la nouvelle geographie economique (NEG) et des faits stylises sur l'integration economique allemande apres 1989. Nous decouvrons que la NEG permet d'expliquer raisonnablement bien l'integration allemande. En fait, l'Allemagne est sans doute proche du sommet de la cour...
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