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The Economic Geography of Trade Production and Income: A Survey of Empirics

Overman, Henry G; Redding, Stephen J.; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper surveys the empirical literature on the economic geography of trade flows, factor prices, and the location of production. The discussion is structured around the empirical predictions of a canonical theoretical model. We review empirical evidence on the determinants of trade costs and...

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The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification

Redding, Stephen J.; Sturm, Daniel M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper exploits the division of Germany after the Second World War and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990 as a natural experiment to provide evidence of the importance of market access for economic development. In line with a standard new economic geography model, we find...

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Distance, Skill Deepening and Development: Will Peripheral Countries Ever Get Rich?

Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Do workers in countries located far from global economic activity have lower incentives to accumulate human capital than workers near the centre? This Paper models the relationship between countries’ distance from global economic activity, endogenous investments in education, and economic...

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History and Industry Location: Evidence from German Airports

Redding, Stephen J.; Sturm, Daniel M; Wolf, Nikolaus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

A central prediction of a large class of theoretical models is that industry location is not necessarily uniquely determined by fundamentals. In these models, historical accident or expectations determine which of several steady-state locations is selected. Despite the theoretical prominence of...

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Factor Price Equalization in the UK?

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K.; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

findings, including multiple cones of diversification, region-industry technology differences, agglomeration, and increasing …

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Geography and Export Performance: External Market Access and Internal Supply Capacity

Redding, Stephen J.; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper investigates the determinants of countries’ export performance looking in particular at the role of international product market linkages. We begin with a novel decomposition of the growth in countries’ exports into the contribution from increases in external demand and from...

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Economic Geography and International Inequality

Redding, Stephen J.; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper estimates a structural model of economic geography using cross-country data on per capita income, bilateral trade, and the relative price of manufacturing goods. More than 70% of the variation in per capita income can be explained by the geography of access to markets and to sources...

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The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel; Redding, Stephen J.; Sturm, Daniel M; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper develops a quantitative model of internal city structure that features agglomeration and dispersion forces … estimate agglomeration and dispersion forces, we use data on thousands of city blocks in Berlin for 1936, 1986 and 2006 and … residential externalities. We show that the model with the estimated agglomeration parameters can account both qualitatively and …

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