Research
Research in Progress
A note on heterogeneity, trade integration, and spatial inequality. In arXiv.
Agglomeration mechanism of an urban corridor. With Kiyohiro Ikeda.
Working from home in a spatial economy. With Liliana Garrido-da-Silva, João Correia-da-Silva and Jacques-François Thisse.
Production externalities and dispersion process in a multi-region economy. In arXiv (and also a previous version titled "How Social Interactions Matter When Distance Dies? "). With Minoru Osawa.
Innovation through Intra and Inter-Regional Interaction in economic geography. In arXiv. With Minoru Osawa.
On the disentanglement of an economic union. With Jorge Saraiva and Kiyohiro Ikeda.
Measuring inequality of opportunity across EU-SILC countries: national and urban-rural perspectives, With Zbigniew Mogila and Patrícia C. Melo.
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Ikeda, K., Aizawa, H., Gaspar, J. M. 2024, Bifurcation mechanism at a sustain point of a long narrow economy, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, accepted.
Gaspar, J. M., Garrido-da-Silva, L., Vasconcelos, P.B., Afonso, O. 2023, Local and global indeterminacy and transition dynamics in a growth model with public goods, Portuguese Economic Journal, 22, 271-314. DOI.
Ikeda, K., Takayama, Y., Gaspar, J. M., Osawa, M. 2022, Perturbed cusp catastrophe in a population game: Spatial economics with locational asymmetries, Journal of Regional Science, 62, 961-980. DOI.
Mogila, Z., Melo, P., Gaspar, J. M . 2022, Estimating labour income-based inequality of opportunity for a selection of EU-SILC countries: national and urban-rural perspectives, Regional Science Policy & Practice, 14(5), 1158–1187. DOI. WP version.
Castro, S. B. S. D., Correia-da-Silva, J., Gaspar, J. M. 2022, Economic Geography meets Hotelling: the home-sweet-home effect, Economic Theory, 73, 183-209. DOI. Preprint.
Gaspar, J. M. 2021, New Economic Geography: history and debate, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 28(1), 46–82. DOI. Preprint version.
Gaspar, J. M., Ikeda, K., Onda, M. 2021, Global bifurcation mechanism and local stability of identical and equidistant regions: Application to three regions and more, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 86, 103597. DOI. Preprint.
Aizawa, H., Ikeda, K., Osawa, M., Gaspar, J. M. 2020, Breaking and sustaining bifurcations in S_N-invariant equidistant economy, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 30(16), 2050240. DOI. WP Version.
Gaspar, J. M . 2020, Paul Krugman: contributions to geography and trade, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 13, 99-115. DOI. Preprint version. View only version.
Gaspar, J. M, Castro, S.B.S.D., Correia-da-Silva, J., 2019, The Footloose Entrepreneur model with a finite number of equidistant regions, International Journal of Economic Theory, 16(4), 420-446 DOI.
Gaspar, J. M, Castro, S.B.S.D., Correia-da-Silva, J., 2018, Agglomeration patterns in a multi-regional economy without income effects, Economic Theory, 66 (4), 863-899. DOI. WP version.
Gaspar, J. M., 2018, Bridging the Gap between Economic Modelling and Simulation: A Simple Dynamic Aggregate Demand-Aggregate Supply Model with Matlab, Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2018, 3193068, 13 pages. DOI.
Gaspar, J. M., 2018, A prospective review on New Economic Geography, The Annals of Regional Science, 61 (2), 237-272. DOI. WP version.
Gaspar, J. M, Vasconcelos, P.B. and O. Afonso, 2014, Economic Growth and Multiple Equilibria: A Critical Note, Economic Modelling, 36, 157-160. DOI.
Book Chapters
Gaspar J.M. (2020) New Economic Geography: Economic Integration and Spatial Imbalances. In: Colombo S. (eds) Spatial Economics Volume I. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. DOI.
Other publications and working papers