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Subsidizing firm entry in open economies

Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - 2009

; heterogeneous firms ; international trade ; monopolistic competition ; entry regulation ; strategic trade policy …Entrepreneurs who decide to enter an industry are faced with different levels of effective entry costs in different … the government incentive to impact on entry costs, and how entry subsidies can be used strategically in open economies. We …

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A comparative analysis of the performance of evolutionary algorithms and logit models in spatial networks

Reggiani, Aura; Nijkamp, Peter; Sabella, Enrico - In: Spatial economic science : new frontiers in theory and …, (pp. 331-354). 2000

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Human capital externalities and the urban wage premium : two literatures and their interrelations

Halfdanarson, Benedikt (contributor); … - 2008

In this paper we survey the recent developments in two empirical literatures at the crossroads of labor and urban economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) and about the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the methods and main results of each of these two...

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On pitchforks and tomahawks

Pflüger, Michael (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2007

The core-periphery model by Krugman (1991) has two 'dramatic' implications: catastrophic agglomeration and locational hysteresis. We study this seminal model with CES instead of Cobb-Douglas upper tier preferences. This small generalization suffices to change these stark implications. For a wide...

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Towards a unifying approach of the 'new economic geography'

Pflüger, Michael (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2006

Models of the new economic geography share a number of common conclusions, but also exhibit notable differences, in particular with respect to the shape of the location pattern and the efficiency of the market equilibrium. This reflects the fact that these models rely heavily on specific...

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Public budget composition, fiscal (de)centralization and welfare

Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana; … - 2007

"We present a dynamic two-region model with overlapping generations. There are two types of public expenditure, education and infrastructure funding, and governments decide optimally on budget size (tax rate) and its allocation across the two outlays. Productivity of government infrastructure...

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National champion versus foreign takeover

Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2007

competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare maximizing domestic competition agency which may or may … of government. With an unbiased competition agency we find that the foreign takeover is more likely to occur the higher …

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Globalization and strategic research investments

Bohnstedt, Anna; Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2010

We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...

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The pan-European population distribution across consistently defined functional urban areas

Schmidheiny, Kurt; Südekum, Jens - 2015

We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are "too small" to follow Zipf's law.

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How diverse can spatial measures of cultural diversity be? : results from Monte Carlo simulations of an agent-based model

Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2014

Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups – such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes - are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this distribution. The...

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