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Traditional push-and-pull factors offered partial explanations to the size of large urban areas in the third world. Moreover, the growing literature in eco - nomic geography identifies an additional factor exacerbating the phenomenon, namely trade costs. The present study tests econometrically...
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, as trade costs are lowered, the geographic concentration of total activity (agglomeration) follows an inverse u …. US city centers and non-metropolitan areas during the period 1850-1990 depict such specialization and agglomeration …
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Extending Krugman’s (1991) economic geography model, this paper examines the stability of an industrial structure resulting from the production shifting-in effect of the formation of regional trade agreements. This paper claims that nonhigher external trade costs against non-member countries...
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This paper presents a two-country two-industry monetary model, with intermediate inputs and transport costs, which builds a bridge between the New Open Economy Macroeconomics and the New Economic Geography literatures. Endogenously asymmetric shocks arise in this model when the exchange rate...
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This paper provides a new model of firm’s location choices. It integrates a Ricardian model of comparative advantage with the location effects deriving from trade costs, increasing returns to scale, product dif ferentiation, and monopolistic competition. In a two-region,...
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A large share of world trade, especially among the OECD countries, is twoway trade within industries, so called intra-industry trade. Despite this, few attempts have been made to examine why countries export some products with - in industries, whereas they import others. We examine this issue,...
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Gustavsson [1999] finds that policies that promote international trade increase the size of a country’s largest city relative to the country’s total population, which is defined here as an increase in urban gigantism. In contrast, Ades and Glaeser [1995] report urban gigantism is reduced by...
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According to the traditional theory of international trade, a gradual opening of trade teamed with migration would make initially asymmetric regions more symmetric. In stark contrast, the new economic geography models show that factor mobility and opening may eventually exaggerates initial...
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sensitivity - trade liberalization may lead to industrial agglomeration and inter-regional trade. Capital heterogeneity gives … environmental consciousness assumption, giving rise to an agglomeration force, which can offset the forces against, trade costs and … the erosion of monopsony power. A robust agglomeration equilibrium is derived analytically and shows that pollution can …
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This paper investigates the novel development of machinery trade pattern in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and analyzes the extent and depth of production networks in Europe from the perspective of their links with East Asia during the past 15 years, 1995~2010. Our descriptive analysis...
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