| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22823 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22823 |
| The Optimal Distribution of Population across Cities | |
| David Albouy; Kristian Behrens; Frédéric Robert-Nicoud; Nathan Seegert | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-11-14 |
| 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 substantial when local governments control city size. |
| 主题 | Subnational Fiscal Issues ; Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Regional and Urban Economics ; Regional Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22823 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580497 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David Albouy,Kristian Behrens,Frédéric Robert-Nicoud,et al. The Optimal Distribution of Population across Cities. 2016. |
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| w22823.pdf（1026KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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