New Economic Geography (NEG) has reached a theoretical consolidation while related empirical tests are still scarce. The present paper aims at providing some evidence on the validity of forces emphasised by NEG. The analysis starts from the nominal wage equation derived from the Krugman “core-periphery model” and focuses on one of the main propositions of NEG that access advantages raise factor...

Poverty mapping in developing countries has become an increasingly important tool in the search for ways to improve living standards in an economically and environmentally sustainable manner. Although the classical econometric methods provide information on the geographic distribution of poverty, they do not take into account the spatial dependence of the data and generally they do not consider...

Industrial policy based on Smart Specialisation emphasizes the exploitation of industrial linkages technological rather than intermediate product linkages. This paper develops microlevel analysis using Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) patent citation database intensity technical relatedness depending cited citing fields. The results are used to estimate patterns i...

On the basis of the “space of flows” theory, city networks emphasizing factor connectivity and spatial connection have become a core perspective for regional spatial relationships. They provide a context for discussing the spatial structures of city networks and a scientific basis for making regional development policies. Relying on expressway traffic flow data from Jiangsu Province in 2014, th...

This paper considers the spatial structure of a city subject to …nal demand and vertical linkages. Individuals consume di¤erentiated goods (or services) and …rms purchase di¤erentiated inputs (or services) in product (or service) markets where …rms compete under monopolistic competition. Workers rent their residential lots in an urban land market and contribute to the production of di¤erentiate...

The main purpose of our paper is to re-examine the role of linkages in a process of rural industrialisation (RI) deriving from the field experience in two purposively selected, newly emerging areas of industrial growth in an industrially backward state. While considerable evidence on survival of manufacturing activities in rural areas, particularly an agriculture-linked process of rural industr...

Two degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) closed spatial linkages can be useful in the design of robotic devices for spatial rigid-body guidance or manipulation. One of the simplest linkages of this type, without any passive DOF on its links, is the revolutespherical-revolute-spherical (RSRS) four-bar spatial linkage. Although the RSRS topology has been used in some robotics applications, the kinematics st...