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dc.contributor.authorNorman, Eva Benedicte Danielsen
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-19T11:34:35Z
dc.date.available2010-10-19T11:34:35Z
dc.date.issued2010-07
dc.identifier.issn0804-6824
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/163232
dc.description.abstractThis paper develops a model for analysing problems related to centralisation and decentralisation. The model is of the new economic geography type, in which there are agglomeration gains in cities but not in rural areas. These gains are counteracted by residential preferences. We show that, even though people have preferences for rural living, an unregulated market economy gives too little centralisation. This result holds even when city governments actively pursue policies to attract economic activities in order to make their city bigger. When allowing for cities of unequal size, a likely outcome is that big cities and rural areas will be overpopulated whereas smaller cities will be too few and too small.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherNorwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of Economicsen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDiscussion paperen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2010:16en
dc.subjectnumber of citiesen
dc.subjectsize of citiesen
dc.subjectexternal economiesen
dc.subjectlocal public inputsen
dc.subjectregional competitionen
dc.subjectagglomerationen
dc.subjectwelfareen
dc.titleThe price of decentralisationen
dc.typeWorking paperen
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Urbanisme og fysisk planlegging: 230::Urbanisme: 237en
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210::Samfunnsøkonomi: 212en


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