Nursery cities: Urban diversity, process innovation, and the life cycle of products

American Economic Review

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1454-1477

  Duranton, Gilles ^a   Puga, Diego ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001149837     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.91.5.1454     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Abdel-Rahman, Hesham M. "City Systems: General Equilibrium Approaches," in Jean-Marie Huriot and Jacques-François Thisse, eds., Economics of cities: Theoretical perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 109-37.
2. Abdel-Rahman, Hesham and Fujita, Masahisa. "Product Variety, Marshallian Externalities, and City Sizes." Journal of Regional Science, May 1990, 30(2), pp. 165-83.
3. Arnott, Richard J. and Stiglitz, Joseph E. "Aggregate Land Rents, Expenditure on Public Goods, and Optimal City Size." Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1979, 93(4), pp. 471-500.
4. Baldwin, Richard E. and Forslid, Rikard. "Trade Liberalisation and Endogenous Growth: A q-Theory Approach." Journal of International Economics, April 2000, 50(2), pp. 497-517.
5. Becker, Randy and Henderson, J. Vernon. "Intra-industry Specialization and Urban Development," in Jean-Marie Huriot and Jacques-François Thisse, eds., Economics of cities: Theoretical perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 138-66.
6. Black, Duncan and Henderson, J. Vernon. "Urban Evolution in the U.S." Working Paper No. 98-21, Brown University, August 1998.
7. Combes, Pierre-Philippe. "Economic Structure and Local Growth: France, 1984-1993." Journal of Urban Economics, May 2000, 47(3), pp. 329-55.
8. Dumais, Guy; Ellison, Glenn and Glaeser, Edward L. "Geographic Concentration as a Dynamic Process." National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, MA) Working Paper No. 6270, November 1997.
9. Duranton, Gilles and Puga, Diego. "Diversity and Specialisation in Cities: Why, Where and When Does It Matter?" Urban Studies, March 2000a, 37(3), pp. 533-55.
10. _. "Nursery Cities: Urban Diversity, Process Innovation, and the Life-Cycle of Products." Centre for Economic Policy Research (London) Discussion Paper No. 2376, February 2000b.
11. Eaton, Jonathan and Eckstein, Zvi. "Cities and Growth: Theory and Evidence from France and Japan." Regional Science and Urban Economics, August 1997, 27(4-5), pp. 443-74.
12. Ellison, Glenn and Glaeser, Edward L. "Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing Industries: A Dartboard Approach." Journal of Political Economy, October 1997, 105(5), pp. 889-927.
13. _. "The Geographic Concentration of Industry: Does Natural Advantage Explain Agglomeration?" American Economic Review, May 1999 (Papers and Proceedings), 89(2), pp. 311-16.
14. Ethier, Wilfred J. "National and International Returns to Scale in the Modern Theory of International Trade." American Economic Review, June 1982, 72(3), pp. 389-405.
15. Feldman, Maryann P. and Audretsch, David B. "Innovation in Cities: Science-Based Diversity, Specialization and Localized Competition." European Economic Review, February 1999, 43(2), pp. 409-29.
16. Flatters, Frank; Henderson, Vernon and Mieszkowski, Peter. "Public Goods, Efficiency, and Regional Fiscal Equalization." Journal of Public Economics, May 1974, 3(2), pp. 99-112.
17. Fujita, Masahisa. "A Monopolistic Competition Model of Spatial Agglomeration." Regional Science and Urban Economics, February 1988, 18(1), pp. 87-124.
18. _. Urban economic theory: Land use and city size. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
19. Fujita, Masahisa and Ishii, Ryoichi. "Global Location Behavior and Organizational Dynamics of Japanese Electronics Firms and Their Impact on Regional Economies," in Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Peter Hagström, and Örjan Sölvell, eds., The dynamic firm: The role of technology, strategy, organization and regions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 343-83.
20. Fujita, Masahisa and Thisse, Jacques-François. Economics of agglomeration. Cities, industrial location, and regional growth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
21. Garreau, Joel. Edge city: Life on the new frontier. New York: Doubleday, 1991.
22. Glaeser, Edward L.; Kallal, Heidi; Scheinkman, José A. and Schleifer, Andrei. "Growth in Cities." Journal of Political Economy, December 1992, 100(6), pp. 1126-52.
23. Greenwood, Michael J. "Internal Migration in Developed Countries," in Mark R. Rosenberg and Oded Stark, eds., Handbook of population and family economics, Vol. 1B. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1997, pp. 647-720.
24. Harrison, Bennett; Kelley, Maryellen R. and Gant, Jon. "Specialization versus Diversity in Local Economies: The Implications for Innovative Private-Sector Behavior." Cityscape: A Journal of Political Development and Research, May 1996, 2(2), pp. 61-93.
25. Henderson, J. Vernon. "The Sizes and Types of Cities." American Economic Review, September 1974, 64(4), pp. 640-56.
26. _. "General Equilibrium Modelling of Systems of Cities," in Edwin S. Mills, ed., Handbook of regional and urban economics, Vol. 2. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1987, pp. 927-56.
27. _. Urban development: Theory, fact and illusion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
28. _. "Externalities and Industrial Development." Journal of Urban Economics, November 1997a, 42(3), pp. 449-70.
29. _. "Medium Size Cities." Regional Science and Urban Economics, November 1997b, 27(6), pp. 583-612.
30. _. "Marshall's Economies." National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, MA) Working Paper No. 7358, September 1999.
31. Henderson, J. Vernon and Becker, Randy. "Political Economy of City Sizes and Formation." Journal of Urban Economics, November 2000, 48(3), pp. 453-84.
32. Henderson, Vernon; Kuncoro, Ari and Turner, Matt. "Industrial Development in Cities." Journal of Political Economy, October 1995, 103(5), pp. 1067-90.
33. Henderson, Vernon and Mitra, Arindam. "The New Urban Landscape: Developers and Edge Cities." Regional Science and Urban Economics, December 1996, 26(6), pp. 613-43.
34. Henderson, J. Vernon and Thisse, Jacques-François. "On Strategic Community Development." Journal of Political Economy, June 2001, 109(3), pp. 546-69.
35. Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (INSEE). Enquête sur la Structure des Emplois (ESE). Paris: INSEE, December 1993.
36. _. Système Informatique pour le Répertoire des ENtreprises et de leurs Établissements (SIRENE). Paris: INSEE, 1993-1996.
37. _. Atlas zones d'emploi. Paris: INSEE, 1998.
38. Jacobs, Jane. The economy of cities. New York: Random House, 1969.
39. Jovanovic, Boyan. "Selection and the Evolution of Industry." Econometrica, May 1982, 50(3), pp. 649-70.
40. Jovanovic, Boyan and MacDonald, Glenn M. "Competitive Diffusion." Journal of Political Economy, February 1994, 102(1), pp. 24-52.
41. Kelley, Maryellen R. and Helper, Susan. "Firm Size and Capabilities, Regional Agglomeration, and the Adoption of New Technology." Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 1999, 5(1-2), pp. 79-103.
42. Kim, Sukkoo. "Expansion of Markets and the Geographic Distribution of Economic Activities: The Trends in U.S. Regional Manufacturing Structure, 1860-1987." Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1995, 110(4), pp. 881-908.
43. Lainé, Frédéric. "Mobilité des Établissements et Déconcentration Urbaine," in Denise Pumain and Francis Godard, eds., Données urbaines, Vol. 2. Paris: Anthropos, 1998, pp. 263-72.
44. Lainé, Frédéric and Rieu, Carole. "La Diversité Industrielle des Territoires." Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (Paris) Premiere No. 650, June 1999.
45. Quigley, John M. "Urban Diversity and Economie Growth." Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1998, 12(2), pp. 127-38.
46. Serck-Hanssen, Jan. "The Optimal Number of Factories in a Spatial Market," in Hendricus C. Bos, ed., Towards balanced international growth. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1969, pp. 269-82.
47. Starrett, David A. "Principles of Optimal Location in a Large Homogeneous Area." Journal of Economic Theory, December 1974, 9(4), pp. 418-48.
48. Stiglitz, Joseph E. "The Theory of Local Public Goods," in Martin S. Feldstein and Robert P. Inman, eds., The economics of public services. London: MacMillan, 1977, pp. 274-333.
49. Tobin, James. "A General Equilibrium Approach to Monetary Theory." Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, February 1969, 1(1), pp. 15-29.
50. Vickrey, William S. "The City as a Firm," in Martin S. Feldstein and Robert P. Inman, eds., The economics of public services. London: MacMillan, 1977, pp. 334-43.