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This paper develops a quantitative model of city structure to separate agglomeration forces, dispersion forces and …
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Large scale transport infrastructure investments connect both large metropolitan centers of production as well as small peripheral regions. Are the resulting trade cost reductions a force for the diffusion of industrial and total economic activity to peripheral regions, or do they reinforce the...
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, namely the joint consideration of agglomeration and growth. We also review empirical methods and findings based on natural …
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agglomeration over time towards an increased emphasis on human interaction. …
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the presence of agglomeration forces, leading to clustering of activity. This paper reviews and develops some simple …
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consistent with other fundamental features of cities like the existence of agglomeration economies and crowding costs. Unlike the …
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This paper studies how firm heterogeneity in terms of productivity affects the balance between agglomeration and … mark-ups. It shows that firm heterogeneity matters. However, whether it shifts the balance from agglomeration to dispersion … 'evenness'. Accordingly, the role of firm heterogeneity in selection models of agglomeration cannot be fully understood without …
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agglomeration economies. This paper provides a microeconomically founded model of vertical city differentiation in which the latter … two mechanisms (`agglomeration' and `selection') operate simultaneously. Our model is both rich and tractable enough to …
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While transport costs have fallen, the empirical evidence also points at rising total trade costs. In a model of industry location with endogenous transaction costs, we show how and under which conditions a decline in transport costs can lead to an increase in the total cost of trade.
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the quality of the match between job and worker, trade liberalization may lead to industrial agglomeration and inter …-industry trade. The agglomeration force is the improvement in the quality of matches when firms recruit from a bigger pool of labor …. The forces against agglomeration are the existence of trade costs and monopoly power in the labor market. We show that …
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