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 …

to industrial agglomeration and inter-regional trade. Labor heterogeneity gives local monopoly power to firms but also … the local market, giving rise to an agglomeration force which can offset the forces against, trade costs and the erosion … of monopoly power. We derive analytically a robust agglomeration equilibrium and illustrate its properties with numerical …

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 … urban centres inhibits the development of nearby cities. …

agglomeration. However, the nature of those benefits remains unclear. In this paper we take advantage of a new dataset to quantify …

, namely the joint consideration of agglomeration and growth. We also review empirical methods and findings based on natural …Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods and … experiments, spatial discontinuity designs, and structural models. Throughout, we give considerable attention to regional growth …

This article analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … fundamentally driven by agglomeration forces, linked to population, industrial specialization and infrastructure endowment …. Innovative areas in China, rather than generate knowledge spillovers, seem to produce strong backwash effects. In India, by …

In recent times there has been a renewed interest in relationships between redistribution, growth and welfare. Land … appreciable impact on growth and poverty. The evidence presented suggests that land reforms do appear to be associated with …

Explaining the growth and change of regions and cities is one of the great challenges for social science. The field of … spatial economic development, are deficient in their ability to explain geographical develop in a causal way, and to …