Evolving Geographical Structures

Section 1. Towards Evolutionary Models of Migration.- Attraction-regulated Dynamic Equilibrium Models of Migration of the Multiplicative Type.- A Non-linear Dynamic Model for the Migration of Human Populations.- An Optimal Control Representation of a Stochastic Multistage-Multiactor Choice Process.- Section 2. Models of Innovation Diffusion Processes.- Technological Change, Policy Response and Spatial Dynamics.- Competition and Environment: A Theory of Temporal Innovation Diffusion.- The Dynamics of Communication.- Section 3. Urban and Regional Change: Growth, Development and Decline.- Empirical Evidence of Volterra-Lotka Dynamics in United States Metropolitan Areas: 1940-1977.- Phasing-out of the Sugar Industry in Puerto Rico.- The Spatial Econometrics of the European FLEUR Model.- A Simulation Model of Regional Demoeconomic Development in North Rhine-Westphalia: Theory, Structure, and Calibration.- Section 4. Spatial Pricing: Efficiency and Dynamic Aspects.- Inefficiency and Instability of Trade Patterns.- Pasinetti, Marx and Urban Accumulation Dynamics.- Spatial Structure and Spatial-temporal Processes.- Section 5. Towards Dynamic Models of Spatial Search.- The Effects of Job Search and Competition on Unemployment and Vacancies in Regional Labor Markets.- Structures for Research on the Dynamics of Residential Search.- Section 6. Temporal Dimensions of the Geography of Public Finance.- Dynamic Models of Spatial Variation in Local Government Expenditures.- Jurisdiction Size and Public Good Supply in the Presence of Reciprocal Spillovers: Static Analysis and an Introduction to Optimal Control of the Dynamics.- Epilogue.- Institute Participants.