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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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Regional Specialization and Transport Costs
Tabuchi, Takatoshi; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
We consider an economic geography model in which all firms and workers are mobile, but the agglomeration of firms and … agglomeration arises for low transport costs. We also show that firms supplying non-tradable consumer services are more agglomerated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792140
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On the Number and Size of Cities
Tabuchi, Takatoshi; Thisse, Jacques-François; Zeng, Dao-Zhi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
show that there exists a path of stable equilibria such that the industry, first, experiences progressive agglomeration … of the increasing urban costs associated with the process of agglomeration. …
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Taste Heterogeneity, Labour Mobility and Economic Geography
Tabuchi, Takatoshi; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
likely to involve too much agglomeration compared to the former. …
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