Author(s): Ikeda, Kiyohiro ; Aizawa, Hiroki ; Gaspar, J. M.
Date: 2021
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/36000
Origin: Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Subject(s): Bifurcation; Economic geography; Replicator dynamics; Satellite cities; Spatial period doubling
We investigate economic agglomerations in a long narrow economy, in which discrete locations are evenly spread over a line segment. The bifurcation mechanism of a monocentric city at the center is analyzed analytically to show how and where satellite cities form. This is an important step to elucidate the mechanism of the competition between a large central city and satellite cities, which is taking place worldwide. By the analysis of the Forslid & Ottaviano (J Econ Geo, 2003) model, we show that the larger the agglomeration forces, the farther from the monocentric city satellite cities emerge. As the trade freeness increases from a low value, there occurs a spatial period doubling in which every other city grows. Thereafter a central city with two satellite cities appears, en route to a complete agglomeration to the central city.
