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Title: Internet Cluster Emergence

Author(s): Danny Quah

Publication Date: November 1999

Keyword(s): Distribution Dynamics, Economic Geography, Internet, Location, Space, Time, Toepitz, Waves and Weightless Economy

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics and International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: Internet development holds the promise of transmitting economic value across physical space at zero marginal cost. In such a 'weightless economy', what factors matter for the location of economic activity and thus for economic development? This paper sketches a model of spatial dynamics over a three-dimensional globe, where transportation costs don't matter. The paper develops conditions under which clusters of activity emerge.

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Quah, D. 1999. 'Internet Cluster Emergence'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=2293