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Country Size and Comparative Advantage: An Empirical Study

Torstensson, Johan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

We formulate a simple model that captures two recent hypotheses: (i) that countries with an abundant absolute endowment of skilled labour will be net exporters in R&D-intensive industries; and (ii) that countries with a large domestic market will be net exporters in scale-intensive industries....

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Agglomeration, Integration and Tax Harmonization

Baldwin, Richard; Krugman, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This Paper considers tax competition and tax harmonization in the presence of agglomeration forces and falling trade …

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New Economic Geography: an appraisal on the occasion of Paul Krugman's 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics

Fujita, Masahisa; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Paul Krugman has clarified the microeconomic underpinnings of both spatial economic agglomerations and regional imbalances at national and international levels. He has achieved this with a series of remarkably original papers and books that succeed in combining imperfect competition, increasing...

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Economics of Agglomeration

Fujita, Masahisa; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

We address the fundamental question arising in economic geography: why do economic activities agglomerate in a small number of places? The main reasons for the formation of economic clusters involving firms and/or households are analysed: (i) externalities under perfect competition; (ii)...

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Agglomeration and Trade Revisited

Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, we present a model of agglomeration and trade that displays the main … agglomeration of alternative pricing policies used in the space-economy, with a special focus on the distinction between segmented … and integrated markets; (ii) a forward-looking approach to the dynamics of migration in the process of agglomeration …

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