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Market Access and Regional Disparities : New Economic Geography in Europe

Niebuhr, Annekatrin - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

New Economic Geography (NEG) has reached a theoretical consolidation while related empirical tests are still scarce. The present paper aims at providing some evidence on the validity of forces emphasised by NEG. The analysis starts from the nominal wage equation derived from the Krugman...

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Enlargement and the EU Periphery : The Impact of Changing Market Potential

Crozet, Matthieu; Brülhart, Marius; Koenig, Pamina - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

We study the impact of changing relative market access in an enlarged EU on the economies of incumbent Objective 1 regions. First, we track the impact of external opening on internal spatial configurations in a three-region economic geography model. External opening gives rise to potentially...

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Concentration and Specialisation Trends in Germany since Reunification

Suedekum, Jens - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

In this paper we describe the development of regional specialisation and geographical concentration in Germany between 1993 and 2001. Somewhat contrary to theoretical expectations derived from the recent literature in location theory, we neither find compelling evidence for a specialisation...

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The impact of optimal tariffs and taxes on agglomeration

Ross, Matthias - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

This paper extends an economic geography model by tariffs to analyze their impact on welfare and sustainability of agglomerations. Policies with and without cooperation are compared, with the goal of maximizing aggregated welfare in the former and regional welfare in the latter case. The main...

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New economic geography in Germany : testing the Helpman-Hanson model

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

structure. The advantage of the Helpman-Hanson model is that it incorporates the fact that agglomeration of economic activity … spreading force that allows for less extreme agglomeration patterns than predicted by the bulk of new economic geography models …

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The final frontier? Border effects and German regional wages

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

Recent studies of border effects have focused on the intra-country and inter-country comparison of trade flows. It is found that borders have a negative impact on the size of cross-border trade. In order to estimate border effects on a regional level one needs not only data on inter-country but...

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Transfers, agglomeration and German unification

Ross, Matthias - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2001

This paper analyses in the framework of a 2-region economic geography model the impact of transfers on agglomeration of … agglomeration than subsidies to consumers (social policy). Second, if a less developed region starts its catch up process first … increasing and afterwards decreasing transfers are necessary to avoid agglomeration. Due to these results east Germany?s slowdown …

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Die Osterweiterung aus raumwirtschaftlicher Perspektive : Prognosen regionalökonomischer Erfahrungen aus der bisherigen Integration in Europa

Lammers, Konrad - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

Im Zuge der Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union eröffnen sich für die Beitrittskandidatenländer gute Möglichkeiten, wirtschaftliche Aktivitäten aus Westeuropa und anderswo zu attrahieren und im Pro-Kopf-Einkommen aufzuholen. Der Aufholprozess der Beitrittsländer wird jedoch von...

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Divergence - is it geography?

Straubhaar, Thomas; Suhrcke, Marc; Urban, Dieter M. - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

This paper tests a geography and growth model using regional data for Europe, the US, and Japan. We set up a standard geography and growth model with a poverty trap and derive a log-linearized growth equation that corresponds directly to a threshold regression technique in econometrics. In...

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Footloose capital, market access, and the geography of regional state aid

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2001

The global welfare implications of home market effects in trade models with imperfect competition are little understood. This paper proposes a simple model in which such implications can be easily analyzed. It shows an overall tendency of imperfectly competitive sectors to inefficiently cluster...

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