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Spatial Distribution of Human & Physical Capital in Economic Systems: Theory & Implications

Explore economic geography, neoclassical growth theory, and factors influencing regional development. Learn about human capital's impact and models predicting economic growth and factor allocation in regions.

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Spatial Distribution of Human & Physical Capital in Economic Systems: Theory & Implications

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  1. The Spatial Distribution of Human and Physical Capital in Integrated Economic Systems: Theory and ImplicationsSascha Sardadvar St. Petersburg, 3 December 2015

  2. Presentation outline • Economic geography and neoclassical growth theory • Presentation of two papers • Sardadvar, S. (2013): Does the neoclassical growth model predict interregional convergence? On the impact of free factor movement and the implications for the European Union, Economics and Business Letters 2(4), 161-168 • Sardadvar, S. (2016): Regional economic growth and steady states with free factor movement: theory and evidence from Europe, Région et Développement43 • Conclusions and outlook

  3. Economic geography “By ‘economic geography’ I mean ‘the location of production in space’; that is, that branch of economics that worries where things happen in relation to one another.” (Krugman 1991, pp. 1) “Economic geography seeks to explain the riddle of unequal spatial development.” (Combes, Mayer and Thisse 2008, pp. xiii) “Economic geography explicitly integrates the mobility of factors (capital and/or labor).” (Combes, Mayer and Thisse 2008, pp. xiv)

  4. Core-periphery relations • Myrdal (1957): • Investment flowstoadvancedregions. • Welleducatedworkersmigratefromtheperipherytothecore. • Krugman (1991): Economicintegrationincreasesortriggers regional disparities. •  The location of firms (physical capital) and workers (labour) becomes endogenous.

  5. Neoclassical growth theory • Assumptions of standard neoclassical models: • Closed economies • Homogeneous labour • No mobility costs •  Convergence hypothesis • Convergence between regions is likely due to similarity (Barro and Sala-i-Martin 1995, López-Bazo 2003). • Labour migration accelerates convergence between regions (Barro and Sala-i-Martin 2004).

  6. Human capital Plays a paramount importance in accounting for regional differences in development (Gennaioli et al., 2013). Can result in a major spatial reallocation of factors (Faggian and McCann, 2009). A city’s or a region’s stock of human capital is often the main determinant of its economic and social future (Prager and Thisse, 2012).

  7. Features of the models • Adopting economic geography’s perspectives to a neoclassical setting: • Microeconomic decisions shape macroeconomic outcomes. • The present allocation of physical and human capital is decisive on future allocations. • The mobility of factors is bounded by distance. • In the long run, disparities with respect to factor allocation prevail.

  8. Contributions to theory • Model I: two-region growth relationship with investment flows and labour migration (Sardadvar 2013) • Model II: long-run steady state spatial factor allocation for a system of regions (Sardadvar 2016)

  9. Production functions Q total output K total physicalcapital stock H total human capital stock L total laboursupply a, b, coutputelasticities

  10. Model I: Physical capital accumulation Physicalcapitalinvestmentsflowtowhereexpectedprofitsarehigher: k physicalcapital stock per worker i, j regionindexes sKphysicalcapitalinvestment rate (saving rate) r additional investments (subsidies) λintegration parameter (speed of relocations) q output per worker δ depreciation rate

  11. Human capital accumulation The compensationfor human capitalisreceivedbyworkers in additiontotheircompensationforrawlabour: Human capital suppliers follow wages, not marginal productivity: vhuman capital wage L total labour stock h human capital stock per worker sHhuman capitalinvestment rate (educationalspending rate)

  12. Growth under constant returns The interplay of factors in both regions determines one region’s growth: …expressionisnegativeif: 12

  13. Growth under varying returns Expression depends on interplayofelasticitiesandfactorendowments:

  14. Model II: Factor allocation in N regions Evolution ofphysicalcapitalstocks: Evolution of human capital stocks: w connectivitybetweenregions μvariable of total flowswithinthesystem x shareofworkerswhosupply human capital

  15. Human capital’s within-region effect Human capitalincreaseswithinoneregionaffectitsgrowthpositively:

  16. Human capital’s neighbourhood effect Human capitalincreases in neighbouringregionsaffectitsgrowthunambiguouslynegatively:

  17. Long-run output steady-states Long-run steady-state levels (as marked by asterisks) of output are similar across neighbouring regions: 17

  18. Empirics Variance of GRP per inhabitant (logs), 250 EU regions 18

  19. Growth regression Spatial lag of X model (LeSage and Pace, 2009): T number of periods α intercept β, γregression coefficients ι(N,1) identity vector q (N,1) vector of observations on initial output per labour input h (N,1) vector of observations on human capital endowment W (N, N) spatial weight matrix u (N,1) vector of residuals 19

  20. Growth regression, 250 EU regions 20

  21. Steady state regression Spatial Durbin model (LeSage and Pace, 2009): ρspatialauto-correlationcoefficient μstandardregressioncoefficient αintercept ι(N,1) identityvector q (N,1) vector of observations on initial output per labourinput h (N,1) vector of observations on human capital endowment W (N, N) spatial weight matrix u (N,1) vector of residuals 21

  22. Steady state regression, 250 EU regions 22

  23. Summary of results • Human capital determines a region’s attractiveness for mobile factors, which includes human capital. • Regions with initially high factor endowments benefit from economic integration. • Instruments to support convergence: • altering the level of economic integration, • compensating disadvantaged regions by subsidies, • benefitting from increasing returns (e.g. metropolitan regions), • increasing investments and educational spending.

  24. Conclusions and outlook • The spatial distribution of human capital is both cause and effect of factor relocations. • Under free market forces, factor relocations lead to spatial inequality of factor distribution. • Without state intervention, disparities will prevail in the long run.

  25. References Barro, R.J., Mankiw, G., Sala-i-Martin, X.X. (1995): Capital mobility in neoclassical models of growth, American Economic Review 85(1), 103-115 Barro, R.J., Sala-i-Martin, X.X. (2004): Economic Growth [2nd edition]. New York, McGraw-Hill Combes, P.-P., Mayer, T., Thisse, J.-F. (2008): Economic Geography – The Integration of Regions and Nations. Princeton, Princeton University Press Faggian, A., McCann, P. (2009): Human capital and regional development, in Capello, R., Nijkamp, P. (eds.): Handbook of Regional Growth and Development Theories. Cheltenham and Northampton [MA], Edward Elgar, 133-151 Gennaioli, N., La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F., Shleifer, A. (2013): Human capital and regional development, The Quarterly Journal of Economics 128(1), 105-164 Krugman, P. (1991): Geography and Trade [reprint 1992]. Leuven and Cambridge [MA], Leuven University Press LeSage, J., Pace, R.K., (2009): Introduction to Spatial Econometrics. Boca Raton, London and New York, CRC Press López-Bazo, E. (2003): Growth and convergence across economies: the experience of the European regions, in Fingleton, B., Eraydin, A., Paci, R. (eds.): Regional Economic Growth, SMEs and the Wider Europe. Aldershot and Burlington, Ashgate, 49-74 Myrdal, G. (1957): Economic Theory and Under-Developed Regions [German edition 1974]. Frankfurt/Main, Fischer TaschenbuchVerlag Prager, J.C., Thisse, J.F. (2012): Economic Geography and the Unequal Development of Regions. Abingdon and New York, Routledge Sardadvar, S. (2013): Does the neoclassical growth model predict interregional convergence? On the impact of free factor movement and the implications for the European Union, Economics and Business Letters 2(4), 161-168 Sardadvar, S. (2016): Regional economic growth and steady states with free factor movement: theory and evidence from Europe, Région et Développement43

  26. Model simulation 12 regions: A, B, …, L, a = 0.3,b = 0.2,δ = 0.05,sK = 0.25,sH = 0.15,λ = 0.1 26

  27. Long-run human capital distribution Human capital (logs) Periods Regions: 27

  28. Simulation: output distribution Output (logs) Periods Regions: 28

  29. Simulation: physical capital distribution Physicalcapital (logs) Periods regions: 29

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