Metropolitan areas and public infrastructure
Editorial: [s.l. : s.n.], 1999
Any de publicació: 1999
Pàgines: 53
Congrés: Encuentro de Economía Pública (6. 1999. Oviedo)
Tipus: Aportació congrés
Resum
In this paper we attempt to explain the formation of cities in a context of metropolitan areas in which farmers do not play any role and where congestion costs appear as an important factor for the spatial conguration of cities. To do this, we rst discuss the dierent eects that considering farmers and congestion costs as centrifugal forces have on the results. Central to the discussion is the notion of complementarity in the location decisions of rms. Second, we analyze the eects of different government policies on metropolitan areas. Some results about a central government affecting spatial configuration of cities are presented.