Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002
In this paper we find evidence that the new economic geography approach is able to describe and explain the spatial … new economic geography model as developed by Helpman (1998) and Hanson (1998) and we find confirmation for a spatial wage … spreading force that allows for less extreme agglomeration patterns than predicted by the bulk of new economic geography models …