| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP11616 |
| DP11616 The optimal distribution of population across cities | |
| Frédéric Robert-Nicoud; Kristian Behrens; Nathan Seegert | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-11-08 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The received economic wisdom is that cities are too big and that public policy should limit their sizes. This wisdom assumes, unrealistically, that city sites are homogeneous, migration is unfettered, land is given freely to incoming migrants, and federal taxes are neutral. Should those assumptions not hold, large cities may be inefficiently small. We prove this claim in a system of cities with heterogeneous sites and either free mobility or local governments, where agglomeration economies, congestion, federal taxation, and land ownership create wedges. A quantitative version of our model suggests that cities may well be too numerous and underpopulated for a wide range of plausible parameter values. The welfare costs of free migration equilibria appear small, whereas they seem substantialwhen local governments control city size. |
| 主题 | International Trade and Regional Economics |
| 关键词 | City size Heterogeneous sites Local governments Federal taxation |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp11616 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/540430 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Frédéric Robert-Nicoud,Kristian Behrens,Nathan Seegert. DP11616 The optimal distribution of population across cities. 2016. |
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