Complexity and Geographical Economics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Pasquale Commendatore, Saime Kayam, Ingrid Kubin

   Pages 1-9

3. Economic Geography Modelling

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Towards a Multiregional NEG Framework: Comparing Alternative Modelling Strategies

      • Pasquale Commendatore, Valerio Filoso, Theresa Grafeneder-Weissteiner, Ingrid Kubin

      Pages 13-50

   3. Parametric Models in Spatial Econometrics: A Survey

      • Diana A. Mendes, Vivaldo M. Mendes

      Pages 51-71

   4. Semiparametric Spatial Autoregressive Geoadditive Models

      • Roberto Basile, Saime Kayam, Román Mínguez, Jose María Montero, Jesús Mur

      Pages 73-98

   5. Diffusion of Growth and Cycles in Continuous Time and Space

      • Tönu Puu

      Pages 99-112

4. Institutions and Markets

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Complex Financial Networks and Systemic Risk: A Review

      • Spiros Bougheas, Alan Kirman

      Pages 115-139

   3. Migration and Networks

      • Douglas R. Nelson

      Pages 141-164

   4. The Response of German Establishments to the 2008–2009 Economic Crisis

      • Lutz Bellmann, Hans-Dieter Gerner, Richard Upward

      Pages 165-207

   5. Complex Network Analysis in Socioeconomic Models

      • Luis M. Varela, Giulia Rotundo, Marcel Ausloos, Jesús Carrete

      Pages 209-245

5. Industrial Interactions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247

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   2. Dynamics of Industrial Oligopoly Market Involving Capacity Limits and Recurrent Investment

      • Anastasiia Panchuk

      Pages 249-275

   3. R&D Networks

      • Gian Italo Bischi, Fabio Lamantia

      Pages 277-299

   4. Strategic Location Choice, R&D, and Sourcing Strategies

      • Michael Kopel, Mario Pezzino, Björn Brand

      Pages 301-324

   5. Empirical Literature on Location Choice of Multinationals

      • Roberto Basile, Saime Kayam

      Pages 325-351

   6. Spatial Interactions in Agent-Based Modeling

      • Marcel Ausloos, Herbert Dawid, Ugo Merlone

      Pages 353-377

The uneven geographical distribution of economic activities is a huge challenge worldwide and also for the European Union. In Krugman’s New Economic Geography economic systems have a simple spatial structure. This book shows that more sophisticated models should visualise the EU as an evolving trade network with a specific topology and different aggregation levels. At the highest level, economic geography models give a bird eye’s view of spatial dynamics. At a medium level, institutions shape the economy and the structure of (financial and labour) markets. At the lowest level, individual decisions interact with the economic, social and institutional environment; the focus is on firms’ decision on location and innovation. Such multilevel models exhibit complex dynamic patterns – path dependence, cumulative causation, hysteresis – on a network structure; and specific analytic tools are necessary for studying strategic interaction, heterogeneity and nonlinearities.

• Complexity
• Geographical Economics
• Network Analysis
• Nonlinear Dynamics
• Spatial Econometrics

• Department of Law, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy

  Pasquale Commendatore

• Department of Management Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Macka, Turkey

  Saime Kayam

• Department of Economics, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

  Ingrid Kubin

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