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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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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 of economic activities. …
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dispersive forces become prevalent at the country level, agglomeration incentives strenghtens specialization within a large …
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This Paper estimates the agglomeration benefits that arise from vertical linkages between firms. The analysis is based … agglomeration benefits of the spatial variation in firm level nominal wages. Unusually detailed intermediate input data allow us to …
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the aim of comparing the only two possible market outcomes, i.e. agglomeration and dispersion. More precisely, we use the … plausible values of the main parameters suggest that there might be excessive agglomeration. …
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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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We study how industry-level agglomeration economies affect government policy. Using administrative data on firm …
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cross-section OLS and dynamic panel GMM estimation. Agglomeration is measured alternatively through measures of urbanization … sets and variable definitions, we find evidence that supports the "Williamson hypothesis": agglomeration boosts GDP growth …
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This Paper studies the theoretical micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies. We distinguish three types of … characterization of some of the main theoretical underpinnings of urban agglomeration economies, to discuss modeling issues that arise … when working with these tools, and to compare different sources of agglomeration economies in terms of the aggregate urban …
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