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in urban economics and location theory. Our purpose in this paper is to shed new light on economic geography through the …
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This paper describes the spread of industry from country to country as a region grows. All industrial sectors are initially agglomerated in one country, tied together by input-output links between firms. Growth expands industry more than other sectors, bidding up wages in the country in which...
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We examine the economic justification for providing investment subsidies to foreign-owned multinationals. These provide employment opportunities and generate demand for domestic intermediate inputs, produced by domestic workers with increasing returns to scale. Offering subsidies to...
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Using two standard location models, we investigate price competition and divergence from optimal product …
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This paper is an effort to do international trade theory without mentioning countries. Nearly all models of the international economy assume that trade takes place between nations or regions which are themselves dimensionless points. We develop a model in which economic space is instead assumed...
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such a 'weightless economy', what factors matter for the location of economic activity and thus for economic development …
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available at the national level; (ii) to present descriptive evidence on the location of aggregate activity and particular … industries and to consider how these location patterns are changing over time; (iii) to consider the nature of the agglomeration …
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if they do not commit crime; and distance to jobs that indicates that remote residential location induces individuals to …
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to these conclusions and summarize recent work pointing to other incentive systems that might lead to efficient location …
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-linear contracts is analyzed. Discriminatory contracts are first characterized at each location. It is then shown that locations have a …
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