Choosing a place to live and a workplace

Huberto Ennis, Santiago Pinto () and Alberto Porto

Económica, 2006, vol. LII, issue 1-2, 15-51

Abstract: We study how fiscal policies and commuting costs determine the geographical distribution of workers and households in an economy. We characterize equilibrium outcomes in a simple two-region model with commuting costs, local public goods, and local infrastructure. We also provide a short survey of the related economic literature that discusses other important factors driving the localization decisions of agents. Finally, we argue that the issues raise in this paper play a significant role in the geographic distribution of economic activity in the Greater Buenos Aires urban area of Argentina.

Keywords: Commuting; local public goods; suburbanization; local infrastructure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H3 H41 H54 H7 J61 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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