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On pitchforks and tomahawks
Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268763
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City air or city markets: productivity gains in urban areas
Krupka, Douglas J. - 2007
Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268387
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Vertical industry relations, spillovers and productivity: evidence from Chilean plants
López, Ricardo A.; Suedekum, Jens - 2007
spillovers on total factor productivity (TFP). In common with previous studies, we find evidence of intra-industry spillovers … relations into account. We find important productivity spillover effects from plants in upstream industries. Interestingly, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268123
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The productivity advantages of large cities: Distinguishing agglomeration from firm selection
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
interactions that increase productivity), possibly reinforced by localised natural advantage. To distinguish between them, we nest … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the … cannot explain spatial productivity differences. This result holds across sectors, city size thresholds, establishment …
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Japan and her dealings with offshoring: An empirical analysis with aggregate data
Agnese, Pablo - 2011
First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the … studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278561
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Agglomeration and Tax Competition
Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael - 2004
Tax competition for a mobile factor is different in 'new economic geography settings' compared to standard tax competition models. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor in the core region can be taxed. Moreover, a tax differential between the core and the periphery can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261800
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Integration, Agglomeration and Welfare
Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - 2004
This paper studies the social desirability of agglomeration and the efficiency arguments for policy intervention in a simple, analytically solvable ?new economic geography? model with two trade integrating regions. The location pattern emerging as market equilibrium is ?bubbleshaped?, i.e. it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262068
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Trade and location with land as a productive factor
Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2008
This paper is motivated by the fact that, contrary to its importance in practice, the role of land for production has received no attention in the new trade theory and the new economic geography. We set up a simple monopolistic competition model and we show that, due to the factor proportions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268704
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Some evidence on the nature of urbanization economies
Krupka, Douglas J. - 2009
Urbanization economies - the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger cities - are a …. Krupka (2008) presents a general model in which exogenous variation in local productivity (natural advantage) and development …/resident happiness and/or reducing productivity of employers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269597
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City Air or City Markets: Productivity Gains in Urban Areas
Krupka, Douglas James - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703768