also, and differentially, by the sectoral levels of trade costs. The fundamental implication for an economic geography … fundamental tension which is intricately affected by trade costs. A reduction of trade costs fosters the dispersive impact of … relative to comparative advantage, and this is more likely the lower are trade costs in increasing returns sectors and the …

We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability …

(decreasing transport costs) has a different impact on the equilibrium ownership structure of that industry, depending on the type …

amenities. The modelassumes that the costs of relocating to a new city are zero. The results hold in the presenceof moving costs …

and homeowner housing values, but housing values are forward-looking and may not reflect current user costs. This paper …

workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch …

fundamental component of both the economic geography of modern societies and the perpetuation of innovation and economic growth at …