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Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Peaks and troughs in the spatial distributions of population, employment and wealth are a universal phenomenon in search of a general theory. Such spatial imbalances have two possible explanations. In the first, uneven economic development can be seen as the result of the uneven distribution of...

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Inter-regional and International Trade: Seventy Years After Ohlin

Behrens, Kristian; Gaigné, Carl; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We study the impact of falling trade costs and falling national transport costs on the economic geography of countries involved in an integration process. Two regions between which labour is mobile form each country, but there is no international factor mobility. Commodities can be traded both...

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Agglomeration,Trade and Selection

Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper studies how firm heterogeneity in terms of productivity affects the balance between agglomeration and … endogenous markups. It shows that firm heterogeneity matters. However, whether it shifts the balance from agglomeration to … `evenness'. Accordingly, the role of firm heterogeneity in selection models of agglomeration can not be fully understood without …

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Agglomeration in the Global Economy: A Survey of the 'New Economic Geography'

Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

cluster together, turning location into a self-reinforcing process. Agglomeration raises the price of immobile local factors …

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Industry Reallocations in a Globalizing Economy

Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We distill the main insights from recent trade models on firms' responses to globalisation. Our primary aim is to assess the economic impact and the welfare implications of the resulting reallocation of resources across firms and countries. In so doing, we bring theory into life through the...

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Global Income Divergence, Trade and Industrialization: The Geography of Growth Take-Offs

Baldwin, Richard; Martin, Philippe; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper takes a modest step towards formalizing the theoretical interconnections among four post-Industrial-Revolution phenomena – the industrialization and growth take-off of rich ‘northern’ nations, massive global income divergence, and rapid trade expansion. Specifically, we present...

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Testing the Home Market Effect in a Multi-Country World: The Theory

Behrens, Kristian; Lamorgese, Andrea; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We extend the model by Krugman (1980) to a multi-country set-up and show that the ‘home-market effect’ highlighted with two countries does not readily extend to such a general setting. In particular, we prove that the most important result, namely the disproportionate causation from demand...

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Outsiders In Economic Integration: The Case of a Transition Economy

Manzocchi, Stefano; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We use a spatial model of endogenous growth to investigate the likely impact of discriminatory integration among two advanced insider countries on their own welfare as well as on the welfare of an outsider transition economy. A first point is that, since convergence in per capita income levels...

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Growth and Agglomeration

Martin, Philippe; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper presents a model in which growth and geographic agglomeration of economic activities are mutually self … reinforcing processes. Industrial agglomeration in one location spurs growth because it reduces the cost of innovation in that … location through a pecuniary externality due to transaction costs. Growth fosters agglomeration because as the sector at the …

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The Geography of Multi-Speed Europe

Martin, Philippe; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

transition period and in the long term, with and without agglomeration economies. Without agglomeration economies, income … country may trigger agglomeration in the rich integrated core. …

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