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Pollution and City Size: Can Cities be too Small?
Borck, Rainald; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016
We study the optimal and equilibrium size of cities in a city system model with environmental pollution. Pollution is related to city size through the effect of population on production, commuting, and housing consumption. With symmetric cities, if pollution is local or per capita pollution...
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Inefficient lock-in and subsidy competition
Borck, Rainald; Koh, Hyun-Ju; Pflüger, Michael - 2009
This paper shows that subsidy competition may be efficiency enhancing. We model a subsidy game among two asymmetric regions in a new trade model, where capital can freely move among regions, but capital rewards are repatriated. We study subsidy competition, starting from an equilibrium where the...
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More similar firms - More similar regions? On the role of firm heterogeneity for agglomeration
von Ehrlich, Maximilian; Seidel, Tobias - 2012
In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of … propensity to export. This renders the home market more important speaking against agglomeration. We also relate changes in firm …
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Lumpy countries, urbanization, and trade
Brakman, Steven; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2011
Lumpiness of production factors within a country might overturn the predictions for the structure of trade by the factor-abundance (HO) model. Trade patterns, as predicted by this model, can both be magnified or reversed by uneven concentration of production factors within a country. Cities are...
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Urban-Biased Structural Change
Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis; Perroni, Carlo; Wong, … - 2023
model of city formation with heterogeneous firms and international trade. We find that agglomeration economies have …
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Adding Geography to the New Economic Geography
Bosker, Erik Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2021
that further integration will most likely be accompanied by higher levels of agglomeration …
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High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration
Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Caglar; … - 2016
-border inventor movements. A common theme throughout this research is the importance of agglomeration economies for explaining high …
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The Location of Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions in the USA
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2015
The research on the location choice for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is traditionally restricted to a choice between countries. The within-country location choice is less prominent in the literature. If within-country location decisions are considered it is mostly limited to Greenfield...
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Why does educational attainment differ across US states?
Hendricks, Lutz - 2004
. Theories based on agglomeration economies offer natural explanations for these observations. …
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Capital tax competition with heterogeneous firms and agglomeration effects
Burbidge, John; Cuff, Katherine; Leach, John - 2004
Our paper extends the capital tax competition literature by incorporating heterogeneous capital and agglomeration. Our … model nests the standard tax competition model as well as the special case in which there is agglomeration but no firm …/capital heterogeneity and the opposite case, firm heterogeneity with no agglomeration. We build on the existing tax competition literature …
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