models involving spatial agglomeration of economic activities. The proposed method overcomes the limitations of the Turing … (1952) approach that has been used to analyze the emergence of agglomeration in the multi-regional core–periphery (CP) model … of Krugman (1993, 1996). In other words, the proposed method allows us to examine whether agglomeration of mobile factors …

We develop a model of trade and agglomeration that incorporates trade in both intermediate goods and final goods and … characterize world equilibrium and establish the conditions under which industrial agglomeration arises as a stable equilibrium … effect becomes influential, trade liberalization can generate non-monotonic effects on industrial agglomeration. The …

This Paper studies the theoretical micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies. We distinguish three types of … characterization of some of the main theoretical underpinnings of urban agglomeration economies, to discuss modeling issues that arise … when working with these tools, and to compare different sources of agglomeration economies in terms of the aggregate urban …

the quality of the match between job and worker, trade liberalization may lead to industrial agglomeration and inter …-industry trade. The agglomeration force is the improvement in the quality of matches when firms recruit from a bigger pool of labour …. The forces against agglomeration are the existence of trade costs and monopoly power in the labour market. We show that …