TY  - JOUR
AU  - Krugman,Paul
TI  - A Dynamic Spatial Model
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 4219
PY  - 1992
Y2  - November 1992
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4219
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4219.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Paul R. Krugman
Department of Economics
Princeton University
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton, NJ  08544
Tel: 609/258-4570
Fax: 609/258-2809
E-Mail: pkrugman@princeton.edu
AB  - Any interesting model of economic geography must involve a tension between "centripetal" forces that tend to produce agglomerations and "centrifugal" forces that tend to pull them apart. This paper explores one such model, and shows that the model links together a number of themes in the geography literature. These include: the role of market access, as measured by a measure of "market potential", in determining manufacturing location; the role of forward and backward linkages in producing agglomerations; the potential for "catastrophes", i.e., discontinuous changes in location in response to small changes in exogenous variables: and the idea that the economy is a "self-organizing system" that evolves a self-sustaining locational structure.
ER  -