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

the hub, with better reciprocal access to spoke nations than to each other. Further liberalization induces agglomeration …

usage creates cost and demand linkages between firms and a tendency for agglomeration of each industry. When trade barriers … consumers. At lower trade barriers agglomeration forces dominate and the equilibrium involves specialization, with each industry …

This paper tackles the issue of the optimality of agglomeration in a two-region economy with skilled/mobile and … intermediate values, it yields agglomeration whereas dispersion is socially desirable. We show that competitive lobbying on factor …

tendency for manufacturing agglomeration. How does globalization affect the location of manufacturing and the gains from trade …