Agliari, Anna, Commendatore, Pasquale, Foroni, Ilaria, Kubin, Ingrid. 2014. Expectations and industry location: a discrete time
dynamical analysis. Decisions in Economics and Finance 37 3-26.
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Abstract
The new economic geography (NEG) aims to explain long-term patterns in the spatial allocation of industrial activities. It stresses that endogenous economic processes may enlarge small historic differences leading to quite different regional patterns - history matters for the long-term geographical distribution of economic activities. A pivotal element is that productive factors move to another region whenever the anticipated remuneration is higher in that region. Given the long-term nature of NEG analyses and the crucial role of expectations, it is astonishing that most of the existing models assume only naïve or myopic expectations. However, a recent stream of the literature in behavioral and experimental economics shows that agents often use expectational heuristics, such as trend extrapolating and trend reverting rules. We introduce such expectations formation hypotheses into a NEG model formulated in discrete time. This modification leads to a system of two nonlinear difference equations (corresponding, in the language of dynamical systems theory, to a 2-dimensional piecewise smooth map) and thus enriches the possible dynamic patterns: with trend extrapolating (reverting) the symmetric equilibrium is less (more) stable; and it may lose stability only via a flip bifurcation (or also via a Neimark-Sacker bifurcation) giving rise to a period-doubling cascade (or also to quasi-periodic orbits). In both cases, complex behavior is possible; multistability, that is, the coexistence of locally stable equilibria, is pervasive; and border-collision bifurcations are also allowed. In this sense, our analysis corroborates some of the basic insights of the NEG.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Journal article |
Journal | Decisions in Economics and Finance |
Language | English |
Title | Expectations and industry location: a discrete time dynamical analysis |
Volume | 37 |
Year | 2014 |
Page from | 3 |
Page to | 26 |
Reviewed? | Y |
Associations
- Projects
- COST Action IS1104: The EU in the new economic complex geography
- People
- Kubin, Ingrid (Details)
- External
- Agliari, Anna (University of Piacenza, Italy)
- Commendatore, Pasquale (University of Naples, Italy)
- Foroni, Ilaria (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
- Organization
- Research Institute for International Taxation FI (Details)
- Department of Economics (Kubin) (Details)