Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on crosscountry regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot easily be controlled for. The innovation of Acemoglu, J...

This paper examines the stable outcomes of organization choice between single-plant and multi-plant under asymmetric two regions. A typical implicit assumption on monopolistic competition models for trade and economic geography is that firms can produce and sell only at one place. This paper allows endogenous determination of the number of plants in a new economic geography model. In particular...

Introduction Geography has strong and pervasive effects on economic and social development. On a worldwide scale, geographical patterns are especially dramatic (Figure 1). The tropics are almost uniformly poor, and few of the nontropical countries are among the poorest. If geography were unimportant, one would expect to see similar economic conditions throughout the world, subject to some rando...

Hexagonal population distributions of several sizes are shown to be selforganized from a uniformly inhabited state, which is modeled by a system of places (cities) on a hexagonal lattice. Microeconomic interactions among the places are expressed by a core–periphery model in new economic geography. Lösch’s ten smallest hexagonal distributions in central place theory are guaranteed to be existent...

This paper explores the overall efficacy of using trademark data as an economic indicator. The paper posits that trademarks—like other measures of innovation and technology production, such as the patent or R&D expenditures—can be used as an effective indicator of regional economic conditions. Yet, trademarks are distinct in that they are market centered. Unlike the productioncentered innovatio...

The connections between the development of creative industries and the growth of cities was noted by several sources in the first decade of the twenty-first century, but explanations relating to the nature of the link have thus far proven to be insufficient. The two dominant “scripts” were those of “creative clusters” and “creative/cities/creative class” theories, but both have significant limi...