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Limits to industrial agglomeration
Junius, Karsten - 1996
equal dispersion of industries, this paper explains why limits to industrial agglomeration can be observed in reality. It …
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Economic development and industrial concentration: An inverted U-curve
Junius, Karsten - 1996
This paper sets up an economic geography model to show the endogenous forces that determine the degree of industry concentration in the course of economic development. The model includes centrifugal forces, such as home market effects and access to intermediate suppliers, and centripetal forces,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275339
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The cost of remoteness revisited
Franke, Richard - 2017
Redding and Sturm (2008) use the German division as a natural experiment to study the importance of market access for regional development. They show empirically that cities close to the East-West German border experienced a significant decline in population growth due to division. I argue that...
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Globalization, integration and regional specialization
Krieger-Boden, Christiane - 2000
Globalization and European integration are substantially changing the interregional division of labor in Europe and the industrial specialization of European regions, thereby potentially affecting the extent of disparities between countries and regions. This paper reviews several theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265464
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European integration and the case for compensatory regional policy
Krieger-Boden, Christiane - 2002
The ongoing process of European integration is likely to increase trade and factor mobility thereby increasing interregional competition and affecting the interregional division of labor. From a theoretical standpoint, rising specialization and polarization of European regions may result from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265565
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Border effects in passenger air traffic
Klodt, Henning - 2003
National borders substantially matter in passenger air traffic. Empirical estimates based upon a new data set on domestic and international departures from German airports indicate that the German border reduces air traffic activity by a factor of four to five. This result adds a further piece...
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Disproportionality measures of concentration, specialization, and polarization
Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt - 2006
The paper extends the methodological toolbox of measures of industrial concentration and regional specialization. First, a taxonomy is proposed which gives rise to a modular construction system for disproportionality measures based on three characteristic features: the projection function, the...
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Structural cohesion in Europe: Stylized facts
Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt; Krieger-Boden, Christiane - 2010
This paper establishes eight stylized facts on the evolution of the localization of economic activity across industries and regions in the EU-15 since 1980. Localization, which nests concentration and specialization, is measured by a Theil index. The stylized facts reveal a broad aggregate trend...
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Institutional design and spatial (in)equality: The Janus face of economic integration
Ott, Ingrid; Soretz, Susanne - 2020
agglomeration. Governments in each of the two symmetric regions provide a local public input that becomes globally effective due to … coordination. Scale effects act as agglomeration force and in addition to private capital agglomeration increase the concentration … input, increasing integration reinforces agglomeration because it promotes the interregional productive use of the public …
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Forward looking dynamics in spatial CGE modelling
Bröcker, Johannes; Korzhenevych, Artem - 2011
This paper sets up a multiregional dynamic framework by combining the optimal savings model with investment adjustment costs and the spatially disaggregated model with Dixit-Stiglitz structure in the modern sector. Because of increasing product diversity on the dynamic equilibrium path, the...
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