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METROPOLITAN AGGLOMERATION AND SECTORAL AGGREGATION *
Author(s) -
Dierx Adriaan H.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1467-9787
pISSN - 0022-4146
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9787.1988.tb01091.x
Subject(s) - autarky , metropolitan area , economies of agglomeration , consistency (knowledge bases) , production (economics) , general equilibrium theory , population , economics , distribution (mathematics) , economic geography , scale (ratio) , econometrics , geography , microeconomics , mathematics , market economy , cartography , mathematical analysis , geometry , demography , archaeology , sociology , welfare
. 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 autarky.