由于产业布局涉及多个地区、多个行业、多种生产要素、多种影响因素,只有空间一般均衡模型才能将它们整合成一个体系。早期经济学虽然从各个不同的角度对空间经济进行了分析,但由于方法上的缺陷,其分析注定是片面的。新经济地理和空间经济学在空间一般均衡框架下将各种不同形式的规模经济与运输成本整合在一起,其模型才显得格外地具有解释力。近年来对于空间一般均衡分析方法的改进在于引入各种非对称条件。
Only under the spatial general equilibrium framework, the factors affecting industrial layout, which involving different districts, numerous industries, many productive elements and influencing factors, can be integrate into a unified system. Although the economic theory in the early stage study the spatial distribution of economic activities from different angles, but their analysis is doomed to be one-sided because of the defects in the method.. New economic geography and spatial economics acquire a kind of particular explaining power through integrating appropriately different types of scale economy into general equilibrium. In recent years, the improvement of the spatial general equilibrium analysis in method is the introduction of various asymmetric conditions.