The DOI matches its Crossref record; 54 of the 54 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Of Hype and Hyperbolas: Introducing the New Economic Geography
Abstract
Reviewing The Spatial Economy by Fujita, Krugman, and Venables, this paper argues that the key contribution of the new economic geography is a framework in which standard building blocks of mainstream economics (especially rational decision making and simple general equilibrium models) are used to model the trade-off between dispersal and agglomeration. The approach thus gives a choice-theoretic basis for a “propensity to agglomerate.”
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
On the mechanics of economic development
Lucas, R. E. (1988) · Journal of Monetary Economics · doi:10.1016/0304-3932(88)90168-7 · Cited by 24,085
Increasing Returns and Economic Geography
Krugman, P. (1991) · Journal of Political Economy · doi:10.1086/261763 · Cited by 12,231
MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION AND OPTIMUM PRODUCT DIVERSITY
Dixit, A., Stiglitz, J. E., Dixit, A. K., & Stiglitz, J. E. (1975) · RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · doi:10.22004/ag.econ.268957 · Cited by 7,391
Scale Economies, Product Differentiation, and the Pattern of Trade
(1990) · Rethinking International Trade · doi:10.7551/mitpress/5933.003.0005 · Cited by 4,464
Increasing returns, monopolistic competition, and international trade
Krugman, P. R. (1979) · Journal of International Economics · doi:10.1016/0022-1996(79)90017-5 · Cited by 3,903
Market Structure and Foreign Trade
Brander, J. A., Helpman, & Krugman (1986) · The Canadian Journal of Economics · doi:10.2307/135294 · Cited by 3,035
Globalization and the Inequality of Nations
Krugman, P., & Venables, A. J. (1995) · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · doi:10.2307/2946642 · Cited by 2,383
Zipf's Law for Cities: An Explanation
Gabaix, X. (1999) · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · doi:10.1162/003355399556133 · Cited by 2,039
Geography and Economic Development
Gallup, J. L., Sachs, J., & Mellinger, A. (1998) · National Bureau of Economic Research · doi:10.3386/w6849 · Cited by 1,777
National and International Returns to Scale in the Modern Theory of International Trade
ETHIER, W. J. (2014) · World Scientific Studies in International Economics · doi:10.1142/9789814590327_0005 · Cited by 1,686
Cited by
Imbs, J., & Wacziarg, R. (2003) · American Economic Review · doi:10.1257/000282803321455160 · Cited by 1,568
Bones, Bombs, and Break Points: The Geography of Economic Activity
Davis, D. R., & Weinstein, D. E. (2002) · American Economic Review · doi:10.1257/000282802762024502 · Cited by 1,052
Clusters, convergence, and economic performance
Delgado, M., Porter, M. E., & Stern, S. (2014) · Research Policy · doi:10.1016/j.respol.2014.05.007 · Cited by 853
Chapter 58 Agglomeration and economic geography
Ottaviano, G., & Thisse, J.-F. (2004) · Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics · doi:10.1016/s1574-0080(04)80015-4 · Cited by 404
Research on influencing factors of environmental pollution in China: A spatial econometric analysis
Liu, K., & Lin, B. (2019) · Journal of Cleaner Production · doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.09.194 · Cited by 325
Metadata
- Authors
- Neary, J. P.
- Venue
- Journal of Economic Literature
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2001-06-01
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 536-561
- ISSN
- 0022-0515 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1977682459
- Cited by
- 481
- References
- 54
- FWCI
- 104.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Of Hype and Hyperbolas: Introducing the New Economic Geography. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1257/jel.39.2.536
- The paper
- Neary, J. P. (2001). Of Hype and Hyperbolas: Introducing the New Economic Geography. Journal of Economic Literature. https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.39.2.536
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
