Trade and circuses: explaining urban giants
Using theory, case studies, and cross-country evidence, we investigate the factors behind the concentration of a nation's urban population in a single city. High tariffs, high costs of internal trade, and low levels of international trade increase the degree of concentration. Even more clearly,...
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| Summary: | Using theory, case studies, and cross-country evidence, we investigate the factors behind the concentration of a nation's urban population in a single city. High tariffs, high costs of internal trade, and low levels of international trade increase the degree of concentration. Even more clearly, politics (such as the degree of instability) determines urban primacy. Dictatorships have central cities that are, on average, 50 percent larger than their democratic counterparts. Using information about the timing of city growth, and a series of instruments, we conclude that the predominant causality is from political factors to urban concentration, not from concentration to political change. |
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| spelling | Ades, Alberto F. Verfasser aut Trade and circuses explaining urban giants Alberto F. Ades ; Edward L. Glaeser Cambridge, Mass. 1994 28 S. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.>: NBER working paper series 4715 Using theory, case studies, and cross-country evidence, we investigate the factors behind the concentration of a nation's urban population in a single city. High tariffs, high costs of internal trade, and low levels of international trade increase the degree of concentration. Even more clearly, politics (such as the degree of instability) determines urban primacy. Dictatorships have central cities that are, on average, 50 percent larger than their democratic counterparts. Using information about the timing of city growth, and a series of instruments, we conclude that the predominant causality is from political factors to urban concentration, not from concentration to political change. Residential mobility Effect of business on Residential mobility Effect of political stability on Urban economics Glaeser, Edward L. 1967- Verfasser (DE-588)124526373 aut National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.>: NBER working paper series 4715 (DE-604)BV002801238 4715 |
| spellingShingle | Ades, Alberto F. Glaeser, Edward L. 1967- Trade and circuses explaining urban giants National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.>: NBER working paper series Residential mobility Effect of business on Residential mobility Effect of political stability on Urban economics |
| title | Trade and circuses explaining urban giants |
| title_auth | Trade and circuses explaining urban giants |
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| title_full | Trade and circuses explaining urban giants Alberto F. Ades ; Edward L. Glaeser |
| title_fullStr | Trade and circuses explaining urban giants Alberto F. Ades ; Edward L. Glaeser |
| title_full_unstemmed | Trade and circuses explaining urban giants Alberto F. Ades ; Edward L. Glaeser |
| title_short | Trade and circuses |
| title_sort | trade and circuses explaining urban giants |
| title_sub | explaining urban giants |
| topic | Residential mobility Effect of business on Residential mobility Effect of political stability on Urban economics |
| topic_facet | Residential mobility Effect of business on Residential mobility Effect of political stability on Urban economics |
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