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ABSTRACT.The role of service industries in the regional growth process has been debated for decades. Although the importance of services in providing an essential framework for the development of exports has long been acknowledged, their ability to initiate growth has never been generally accepted. In this paper the change in composition of exports from Canada's four western provinces between 1974 and 1979 is analyzed. It was observed that service exports increased more rapidly than exports of goods on both a direct and a direct‐plus‐indirect basis in 88 percent of comparisons. In absolute terms, the gain in service exports was equal to 89 percent of that for goods expo

ISSN:0022-4146    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9787.1988.tb01084.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT.Previous work has developed a method for studying noninfinitesimal operational units, called “plantations,” with the Thüen model. In that model, increasing returns to scale generate large operational units, but the potential market power conferred by the scale economies is sidestepped as an issue. The present work introduces finite supply elasticities and examines their locational impacts. The profit‐maximizing monopsonistic plantation is smaller, and the shipment distance for its processed output is shorter, than for a comparable competitive plantation. The present approach does not involve spatial competition stra

ISSN:0022-4146    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9787.1988.tb01085.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT.Within the framework of an existing hierarchy of shopping centers, Voronoi diagrams at each level of the hierarchy are used to defineinfringementon existing centers by new entrants. We distinguish four intensities of infringement—that is, four categorizations of when existing centers face new competition—and label shopping centers accordingly. Our aim is to determine empirically which type of new competition is best explained by various attributes of the incumbent centers. To accomplish this, logit analysis is used to relate the above labels to market‐area population, store turnover, age, and hierarchical level of each shopping center in Edmonton, Al

ISSN:0022-4146    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9787.1988.tb01086.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT.In a polycentric urban context, several urban nodes may exert an influence over land rents. Where this is the case, regression analysis to explain land rents should employ distance variables corresponding to each of the urban nodes. However, these distance measures may be highly intercorrelated, thereby posing a problem of “spatial multicollinearity.”This paper demonstrates that problems arising from spatial multicollinearity can be avoided or substantially lessened by carefully selecting the geographic domain from which observations are dr

ISSN:0022-4146    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9787.1988.tb01087.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT.This paper uses a two‐stage hedonic wage approach to derive the benefits from improvement of five cultural amenities. It is argued that the hedonic approach permits valuation of both private and local public aspects of cultural goods since access to the amenity is an essential input in the production of the final service flow. Empirical estimates of willingness to pay suggest price and income elasticities are approximately unity. Lower‐bound estimates of marginal benefits for a representative city range from $0.85 million for an additional theater to $57.9 million for an additional zoo facil

ISSN:0022-4146    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9787.1988.tb01088.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT.This paper presents a two‐sector dynamic model of regional population change. The model contains a migration equation, an earnings equation, and an amenity equation for each region. In the context of this model, migration is seen as a disequilibrium process through which the regional populations move towards equilibrium positions. Migration occurs when one region is perceived to be superior to the other on the basis of its earnings and amenity levels. Equilibrium is achieved when population movements between the regions eliminate any differences in their relative attractiveness. A comparative‐static analysis of the model is presented to analyze the effects of policy changes and exogenous shocks on the distribution of population among the regions. We find that positive shocks to regional earnings and to amenity tend to increase the population of a region. However the amenity shocks generate two opposing effects on regional population, with stability of the model requiring that the expansionary effect of the amenity shock outweigh the contractionary eff

ISSN:0022-4146    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9787.1988.tb01089.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT.The least upper bound to the overall percentage error resulting from the omission of interregional feedbacks in input‐output analysis is defined. This limiting value is the most informative of all upper bounds. A procedure for its computation is outlined and a number of experiments, using U.S. data, are discusse

ISSN:0022-4146    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9787.1988.tb01090.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

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ABSTRACT.This paper proposes a procedure with which sectoral production functions can be aggregated to metropolitan production functions in the presence of external economies of scale. The procedure specifies the production functions as part of general equilibrium models. Consistency of a one‐sector and a two‐sector general equilibrium model is defined in terms of equality of the distribution of a nation's population over its metropolitan areas in auta

ISSN:0022-4146    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9787.1988.tb01091.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT.The distribution of above‐median income groups can be described accurately by OLS regression of the Pareto distribution. The excellent fit of log‐linear regression has led some researchers to conclude that extrapolated income measures in the open end of the distribution are reliable. The analysis of income distribution data for metropolitan areas reveals: (1) that OLS tends to consistently overestimate the number of families in the tail, and (2) that the overestimation can have serious implications for hypothesis test

ISSN:0022-4146    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9787.1988.tb01092.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT.This paper develops a model to examine the economic interaction between central places and their hinterlands. The model allows interindustry linkages and upward trade flows in an urban hierarchy system. Trade balance equilibrium between hierarchical levels is established by direct mutual interlevel trade, rather than by indirect trade via the rural sector. The economic base multipliers generally increase with city size but occasionally they could be smaller than those of lower places. A continuous urban hierarchy is formed due to their relative location within the system, not to unspecified randomness.

ISSN:0022-4146    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9787.1988.tb01093.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY