TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-organization of hexagonal agglomeration patterns in new economic geography models
AU - Ikeda, Kiyohiro
AU - Murota, Kazuo
AU - Akamatsu, Takashi
AU - Kono, Tatsuhito
AU - Takayama, Yuki
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful for comments and suggestions made by Tomoya Mori and Takatoshi Tabuchi. This research was supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 19360227/21360240/ 24360202 of JSPS and the Aihara Project, the FIRST Program from JSPS, initiated by CSTP.
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - Self-organization of agglomeration patterns for economic models in a two-dimensional economic space is studied from a multi-disciplinary viewpoint of new economic geography, central place theory, and bifurcation theory. Emergence of hexagonal distributions of various sizes in a homogeneous space is predicted theoretically for core-periphery models. The existence of hexagonal distributions as stable equilibria is demonstrated by a comparative static analysis with respect to transport costs for specific core-periphery models. These distributions are the ones envisaged by central place theory and also inferred to emerge by Krugman (1996) for a core-periphery model in two dimensions.
AB - Self-organization of agglomeration patterns for economic models in a two-dimensional economic space is studied from a multi-disciplinary viewpoint of new economic geography, central place theory, and bifurcation theory. Emergence of hexagonal distributions of various sizes in a homogeneous space is predicted theoretically for core-periphery models. The existence of hexagonal distributions as stable equilibria is demonstrated by a comparative static analysis with respect to transport costs for specific core-periphery models. These distributions are the ones envisaged by central place theory and also inferred to emerge by Krugman (1996) for a core-periphery model in two dimensions.
KW - Bifurcation
KW - Central place theory
KW - Core-periphery models
KW - Group-theoretic bifurcation theory
KW - Hexagons
KW - New economic geography
KW - Self-organization
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jebo.2013.12.008
DO - 10.1016/j.jebo.2013.12.008
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84893007573
SN - 0167-2681
VL - 99
SP - 32
EP - 52
JO - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
JF - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
ER -