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Multiplant strategy under core-periphery structure

Tsubota, Kenmei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

A typical implicit assumption on monopolistic competition models for trade and economic geography is that firms can produce and sell only at one place. This paper fallows endogenous determination of the number of plants in a new economic geography model and examine the stable outcomes of...

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The location of manufacturing firms and imperfect information in transport market

Gokan, Toshitaka - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

It is well know that transport charges are not symmetric: fronthaul and backhaul costs on a route may differ, because they are affected by the distribution of economic acitivities. This paper develops a two-regional general equilibrium model in which transport costs are determined endogenously...

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Agglomeration and directional imbalance of freight rates : the role of density economies in the transport sector

Tsubota, Kenmei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

this to models without density economies, we show that agglomeration of economic activities is more likely to emerge and … equilibrium and conclude that economies of density in transport flows can act as an agglomeration force. …

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Globalization and the Evolution of the Supply Chain: who gains and who loses?

Fujita, Masahisa; Thisse, Jacques-Francois - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2004

two regions, the decrease of these costs fosters the gradual agglomeration of plants in the core region accommodating the …

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Economic integration, location of industries, and frontier regions : evidence from Cambodia

Kuroiwa, Ikuo; Tsubota, Kenmei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

We examine changes in the location of economic activity in Cambodia between 1998 and 2008 in terms of employment growth. During this period, Cambodia joined ASEAN and increased trade with neighboring countries. Drawing on the predictions of the new economic geography, we focus on frontier...

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Shrinking population and the urban hierarchy

Kim, Ho Yeon - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

agglomeration shadow become relatively bigger as medium industries spill over on them. This appears to be quite robust against a …

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Agglomeration effects of informal sector: evidence from Cambodia

Tanaka, Kiyoyasu; Hashiguchi, Yoshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

produces agglomeration externalities. This paper uses data on all the nonfarm establishments and enterprises in Cambodia to … estimate the impact of informal agglomeration on the regional economic performance of formal and informal firms. We develop a … dependence. We find a significantly positive effect of informal agglomeration, where informal firms gain more strongly than …

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Behavioral characteristics of applied general equilibrium models with an Armington-Krugman-Melitz encompassing module

Oyamada, Kazuhiko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

This paper explore how simulation results change with different choice of trade specification, and the strength of preference for traded variety by economic agent differs, utilizing two types of three-region, three-sector AGE model that includes the Armington-Krugman-Melitz Encompassing module...

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Strategic trade policy and non-linear subsidy : in the case of price competition

Yoshino, Hisao - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

In a strategic trade policy, it is assumed, in this paper, that a government changes disbursement or levy method so that the reaction function of home firm approaches infinitely close to that of foreign firm. In the framework of Bertrand-Nash equilibrium, Eaton and Grossman[1986] showed that...

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Is FTA/EPA effective for a developing country to attract FDI? : simulation analysis based on an extended knowledge-capital model

Oyamada, Kazuhiko; Uchida, Yoko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

To prepare an answer to the question of how a developing country can attract FDI, this paper explored the factors and policies that may help bring FDI into a developing country by utilizing an extended version of the knowledge-capital model. With a special focus on the effects of FTAs/EPAs...

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