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Services, Comparative Advantage and Agglomeration of Economic Activity: A Ricardo-Marshall Model

Pflüger, Michael - European Regional Science Association - 2014

The last one and a half centuries have witnessed dramatic changes in the world economy. The service (tertiary) sector, which at the beginning of the 20th century was of little importance relative to agriculture and manufacturing, has become the dominant sector today, accounting for 80% and more...

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Does History Fully Determine the Spatial Distribution of Human Capital ?

Busson, Henri - European Regional Science Association - 2014

In the United States, regions with more human capital tend to attract skilled workers (e.g., see Glaeser and Berry, 2005), and as a result, convergence between regions does not occur (e.g., see Barro and Sala-i-Martin, 1992). Presently, many of the most productive European workers try to migrate...

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Spatial evolution of economic activity in Russia: New economic geography perspective

Kolomak, Evgeniya - European Regional Science Association - 2014

interregional divergence in Russia. The forces behind the agglomeration economy and regional disparities are market … mechanisms of agglomeration and provides suggestions for the pro-dispersion forces to countervail centripetal tendencies …

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Creative Class vs. Individual Creativity ? A Multi-level Approach to the Geography of Creativity

Alfken, Christoph - European Regional Science Association - 2014

For more than ten years the topics creative class, creative industries and creative regions are on the agenda in economic geography literature. Contributions mainly focus on the distribution, mobility and economic impact of creative individuals or companies from a regional perspective. It is...

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An Exploratory Space Data Analysis of Manufacturing Co-Localization Patterns in Italy.

Ercole, Roberto - European Regional Science Association - 2013

combination of discrete and continuous-space models will be used in order to explore the agglomeration, concentration and … account in order to have a rilaible measurment of agglomeration. Hence, the Moran?s I, Moran?s scatterplot and LISA statistics …

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An Exploratory Discrete-Space Analysis of Two-Digits Manufacturing in Vietnam

Ercole, Roberto - European Regional Science Association - 2013

idiosyncratic patterns of agglomeration, concentration and specialization within the country. The digit code refers to the Vietnam … order to explore the agglomeration, concentration and specialization patterns within two-digits manufacturing in Vietnam … investment, as Vietnam became a member of WTO in 2007. These favorable economic conditions inevitably impact on agglomeration …

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EU regional policy and its theoretical foundations revisited

Schmidt, Peter - European Regional Science Association - 2014

This paper reconsiders the theoretical foundations of EU regional policy in economics. It begins with a discussion of the line of thought of its prevalent explanation in equilibrium economics which is focusing on market failures as its key underpinning and which is the major toolkit of...

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Agglomeration, Segmentation and Technology Choice

sawada, yukiko - European Regional Science Association - 2014

This paper presents a simple two country model in which firms in manufacturing sector choose a technology level (high or low). I show how trade integration and productivity differential affect technology choice clearly. In particular, if the gap of productivity of high technology is medium,...

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Endogenous FDI Spillovers from Japan to Russia and China with Spillover-Prevention Costs

Matsubara, Kiyoshi - European Regional Science Association - 2014

This paper explores the role of FDI-spillover prevention costs in the strategic choice for a MNE of a developed country such as Japan about whether it perform FDI to an emerging economy such as Russia and China and about a degree of FDI spillovers that it allows. After discussing the exogenous...

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Domestic Product Standards and Free Trade Areas: Implications for the EU-Japan FTA

Yanase, Akihiko; Kurata, Hiroshi - European Regional Science Association - 2014

This study considers endogenous determination of domestic standards on products that cause negative consumption externalities in the presence of a preferential trade agreement (PTA) in a three-country world. In particular, we examine how a PTA affects the optimal levels of external tariffs and...

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