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Agglomeration economies and the location of industries: a comparison of three small European countries

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

natural advantages can be important determinants of agglomeration. …

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Concentration, spatial clustering and the size of plants : disentangling the sources of co-location externalities

LAFOURCADE, Miren; MION, Giordano - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2003

spatial agglomeration, as the standard Dixit-Stiglitz (1977)-Krugman (1980) framework, all the variability in these measures … by) concentration and agglomeration patterns according to a size-related basis. These results therefore cast some doubt …

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Home market effect versus multinationals

TOULEMONDE, Eric - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2007

In this paper, based on the cyclic scheduling formulation of Schilling and Pantelides [22], we propose a continuous time mixed integer linear programming (MILP) formulation for the cyclic scheduling of a mixed plant, i.e. a plant composed of batch and continuous tasks. The cycle duration is a...

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Agricultural sector and industrial agglomeration

PICARD, Pierre; ZENG, Dao-Zhi - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2003

We investigate an economic geography model in which agricultural goods are costly to transport and in which manufactures hire labor from the local agricultural sector as unskilled labor. We show that agricultural transport costs and local-unskilled labor requirements in firms act as a dispersion...

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Geographic concentration and establishment scale: can panel data tell us more ?

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

In a recent study, Holmes and Stevens (2002) identify for the first time a positive relationship that exists between establishment scale and local industry concentration using a large cross-sectional plant level data set for the US. Using an exhaustive plant level panel data set for Irish...

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Firms’ location Under taste and demand heterogeneity

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

heterogeneity smooths the agglomeration patterns but that it should be considered neither as a dispersion force nor as an … agglomeration force. Indeed, the introduction of taste heterogeneity makes an initially dispersed economy less dispersed and an …

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Natural agglomeration

PICARD, Pierre; TABUCHI, Takatoshi - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2003

cost functions, whereas agglomeration in 1 or 2 atomic cities is stable for any economic parameters given regular transport …

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Regional specialization, urban hierarchy, and commuting costs

TABUCHI, Takatoshi; THISSE, Jacques-François - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2003

We consider an economic geography model of a new genre: all firms and workers are mobile and their agglomeration within …

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The dynamics of agglomeration : evidence from Ireland and Portugal

BARRIOS, Salvador; BERTINELLI, Luisito; STROBL, Eric; … - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2004

This paper analyses and compares the dynamics of agglomeration in Portuguese and Irish manufacturing industries between … agglomeration in both countries. When the aggregate concentration changes are decomposed into portions attributable to the different … into the early stages of the life cycle, whereas deaths have acted to reinforce agglomeration in both countries …

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A simple model of economic geography à la Helpman-Tabuchi

MURATA, Yasudada; THISSE, Jacques-François - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2005

agglomeration of economic activities. …

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