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Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

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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Inter-regional and International Trade: Seventy Years After Ohlin

Behrens, Kristian; Gaigné, Carl; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

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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A Simple Model of Economic Geography à la Helpman-Tabuchi

Murata, Yasusada; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

agglomeration of economic activities. …

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Transport Cost Decline and Regional Inequalities: Evidence from France

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Lafourcade, Miren - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

dispersive forces become prevalent at the country level, agglomeration incentives strenghtens specialization within a large …

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Economic Geography and Wages

Amiti, Mary; Cameron, Lisa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

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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Agglomeration and Welfare: The Core-Periphery Model in the Light of Bentham, Kaldor and Rawls

Charlot, Sylvie; Gaigné, Carl; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

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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Agglomeration,Trade and Selection

Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

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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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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Agglomeration, Offshoring and Heterogenous Firms

Baldwin, Richard; Okubo, Toshihiro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Recent trade models determine the equilibrium distribution of firm-level efficiency endogenously and show that freer trade shifts the distribution towards higher average productivity due to entry and exit of firms. These models ignore the possibility that freer trade also alters the firm-size...

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