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Do we go shopping downtown or in the ‘burbs’? Why not both?

USHCHEV, Philip; SLOEV, Igor; THISSE, Jacques-François - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2013

We combine spatial and monopolistic competition to study market interactions between downtown retailers and an outlying shopping mall. Consumers shop at either marketplace or at both, and buy each variety in volume. The market solution stems from the interplay between the market expansion effect...

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Trade integration and trade imbalances in the European Union: a network perspective

KRINGS, Gautier M.; CARPANTIER, Jean-François; … - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2013

We study the ever more integrated and ever more unbalanced trade relationships between European countries. To better capture the complexity of economic networks, we propose two global measures that assess the trade integration and the trade imbalances of the European countries. These measures...

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Preferential trade agreements harm third countries

MOSSAY, Pascal; TABUCHI, Takatoshi - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2012

In this paper, we study market liberalization in an imperfectly competitive environment in the presence of price effects. For this purpose, we build a three-country model of international trade under monopolistic competition with endogenous prices and wages. The neighboring effect translates how...

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Economic integration as a partition function game

MORELLI, Massimo; PENELLE, Philippe - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1997

This paper provides a methodology to study coalition formation problems with externalities and heterogeneous players, when some subset of the players can act as “coalition developers” over time. The framework provided here allows to explicitly predict the timing of admission to coalitions,...

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Firms’ location Under taste and demand heterogeneity

Okubo, Toshihiro; Picard, Pierre M. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008

In this paper we build a quality-augmented version of an economic geography model where consumers have heterogenous tastes for a set of manufacturing varieties. We discuss a footloose capital model and a footloose entrepreneur model. We show that firms selling the goods with higher values select...

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Industry mobility and geographic concentration in the European Union

BARRIOS, Salvador; STROBL, Eric - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2003

We study the pattern of geographic concentration of industries in EU countries and regions between 1972 and 1995. We … find that changes in concentration levels were mainly due to industry mobility rather than historical accidents and past … levels of concentration as often argued by the New Economic Geography literature. …

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Some useful properties of the Dirichlet process

ROLIN, Jean-Marie - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1992

The aim of this paper is firstly to recall the close connection between the Dirichlet process and the Gamma process in very genera] spaces and to show how it can be used to derive interesting properties of the Dirichlet process. Secondly, it is shown that the characterization of the Dirichlet...

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Transfer pricing and enforcement policy in oligopolistic markets

AMERIGHI, Oscar - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2004

In this paper we set up a symmetric two-country model with trade costs and international ownership to study the transfer pricing decisions by two multinationals operating in markets with Cournot competition. We let governments choose both the corporate profit tax rate and the level of...

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Gates, hubs and urban primacy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Pholo Bala, Alain - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2009

We investigate the impact of changes in international trade and domestic transport costs on the internal geography of a domestic economy linked to the rest of the World through a hub. We address that issue by developing two three regions model, namely a version of the Footlose Entrepreneur and a...

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On tax competition, public goods provision and jurisdictions’ size

PIERETTI, Patrice; ZANAJ, Skerdilajda - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2009

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