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This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3- dimensional featureless … global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and … converges towards egalitarian growth. Equality is stable but spatial inequality is needed to attain it. …
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This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended … rate on the equilibrium growth rate as well as on the income distribution. We show that the relationship between growth and …
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productivity in the UK while leaving the long run growth rate unaffected. Based entirely on pre-crisis data, and using a two …-sector growth model, I project the future growth rate of GDP per hour in the market sector to be 2.61% p.a. Based on a cross …
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lower economic growth; and that the former also implies a reduction in per capita GDP, while the latter distorts the …
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This paper presents a model of international trade that features heterogeneous firms, relative endowment differences … across countries, and consumer taste for variety. The paper demonstrates that firm reactions to trade liberalization generate … wide range of firmlevel reactions to falling trade costs, the model also shows that, as trade costs fall, firms in …
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Relative wages vary considerably across regions of the United Kingdom, with skill-abundant regions exhibiting lower skill premia than skill-scarce regions. This paper shows that the location of economic activity is correlated with the variation in relative wages. U.K. regions with low skill...
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The paper explores the determinants of industry location across interwar Poland. After more than 120 years of political and economic separation, Poland was reunified at the end of 1918. In consequence, its industry faced massive structural changes: the removal of internal tariff barriers and...
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This paper analyses patterns of production across 14 industries in 45 regions from 7 European countries since 1975. We estimate a structural equation derived directly from Heckscher- Ohlin theory that relates an industry’s share of a region’s GDP to factor endowments and relative prices....
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This paper proposes a new empirical framework for analyzing specialization dynamics. A country’s pattern of specialization is viewed as a distribution across sectors, and statistical techniques for analyzing the evolution of this entire distribution are employed. The empirical framework is...
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neoclassical growth model. The short-run revenue loss after an income tax cut is partly - or, depending on parameter values, even … completely - offset by growth in the long-run, due to the resulting incentives to further accumulate capital. We study how the … dynamic response of government revenue to a tax cut changes if we allow a Ramsey economy to engage in international trade: the …
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