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structures and land as an immobile factor. We allow for sectoral linkages in the form of an intermediate input structure that …
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determines which inputs are initially considered and eventually adopted by innovators? We examine the evolution of input linkages … inputs along vertical linkages, screening the network neighborhood of existing suppliers to identify potentially useful … significantly more likely to develop new input linkages among their suppliers’ network neighborhood. Our results imply that the …
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manufacturing industries from 1992 to 1999. We investigate spillovers through horizontal, backward and forward linkages, distinguish …
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This Paper, a thorough revision of Spagnolo (1996), addresses the following questions: What is the optimal design for a set of self-enforcing international policy agreements? How many and which issues should each agreement regulate? Are GATT’s constraints on issue linkage (cross-retaliation)...
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idiosyncratic shocks due to input-output linkages across the economy (Acemoglu et al., 2012). We find that firm linkages are …
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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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fall, increasing returns interacting with labour mobility and/or input-output linkages between firms create a tendency for …
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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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This paper analyses a model of economic development in which international inequalities in the location of industry and income are supported by the agglomeration of industry in a subset of countries. Economic development may not be a gradual process of convergence by all countries, but instead...
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This review of recent contributions reveals common conclusions about the effects of integration on location. For high trade costs the need to supply markets locally encourages firms to spread across different regions. Integration weakens the incentives for self-sufficiency and for intermediate...
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