Geographic concentrations and increasing returns : a survey of evidence

Paolo Surico (Bocconi University)

Economic activities are highly clustered. Why is geographic concentration becoming a predominant feature of modern economies? On the basis of the empirical models developed by the 'new' theories of international trade, our answer is that increasing returns are the driving force of economic geography in the US as well as in Europe. In so doing, we review econometric methods proposed in the literature to separate and to test alternative theoretical paradigms.

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Year of publication:	March 19, 2002
Authors:	Surico, Paolo
Publisher:	[Milano] : [Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei]
Subject:	Increasing returns \| market access \| demand and cost linkages \| large-scale agglomeration \| Regionales Cluster \| Regional cluster \| Skalenertrag \| Returns to scale \| Agglomerationseffekt \| Agglomeration effect \| Neue ökonomische Geographie \| New economic geography

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 28 Seiten)
Series:	Working paper. - Milan : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ZDB-ID 2217241-5. - Vol. [2002, 29]
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/119634 [Handle]
Classification:	C52 - Model Evaluation and Testing ; F11 - Neoclassical Models of Trade ; F12 - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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