New Challenges in New Economic Geography
Interim Report
Introduction
New Challenges in New Economic Geography / Satoru KUMAGAI
Chapter 1
Market Access and Intermediate Goods Trade / Kazunobu HAYAKAWA
Chapter 2
Equilibrium locations of upstream and downstream firms / Toshitaka GOKAN
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
One key compromise is to use a ‘topology’ representation of geography, rather than a ‘mesh’ or ‘grid’ representation or simple ‘straight lines’ connecting each city which are used in many other models. In addition to this, a modal choice model that takes into consideration both money and time costs seems to work well.