Agglomeration Economies Versus Urban Diseconomies: The Case of the Greater Metropolitan Area (GMA) of Costa Rica

 

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Autores: Pichardo Muñiz, Arlette, Otoya Chavarría, Marco
Formato: artículo
Fecha de Publicación:2012
Descripción:The process of agglomeration economies proceeds in increasing manner, indirectly affecting productive activities such as education, public services, transportation and all of its linked components. Nevertheless, there is a limit to this accumulative process where the gains from economies of scales are reversed and this is related to the accumulation of decreasing costs in the areas of agglomeration. These costs include price of factors (i.e., commuting) with scarcer factors (land and labor); it also includes costs related to transportation (traffic, stress, crime, etc.) (Polèse, 1998). Generally speaking, a city, just like any other economic resource, begins to enter a phase of decreasing returns of scale and cost of essential urban services like transportation, adopting an U-shaped trend, as explained in microeconomic analysis (Camagni, 2005).
País:Repositorio UNA
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Repositorio UNA
Lenguaje:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:https://repositorio.una.ac.cr:11056/18237
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11056/18237
https://www.intechopen.com/books/advances-in-spatial-planning/agglomeration-economies-versus-urban-diseconomies
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:MACROECONOMÍA
ECONOMÍA REGIONAL
DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO
CALIDAD DE VIDA
SEGURIDAD
COSTA RICA
MACROECONOMICS
REGIONAL ECONOMY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
LIFE QUALITY
SECURITY