affect trade costs. This hypothesis might help reconcile the theoretical unitary income elasticity with most empirical …

We analyze how the interplay between urban costs, wage wedges, and trade costs may affect the interregional location of … characterize modern economies. Moreover, when trade costs fall from high levels, the economy moves gradually from dispersion to …

international trade costs on the spatial distribution of economic activities strongly depends on the structure of trade flows and …

If trade costs matter for trade, and if distance matters for at least some trade costs, then location matters for trade … in this model, depending on trade costs compared to differences in autarky prices. The results are the following: For a … such a country is also important for the trade of the other countries. Finally, although a fall in trade costs increases …

It has been widely argued that, with the decline in trade costs, the importance of distance has declined over time. On … true despite declining trade costs. The paper also analyzes the impact on the DOT of changes in production, customs and …