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Specialization and regional economic development

Kemeny, Thomas; Storper, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Debates about urban growth and change often center on specialization.However, arguments linking specialization to … diversified? Does specialization refer to the absolute scale of an activity in a region, its share within the regional economy, or … its share in the nation’s economy? Does specialization have static effects, or is its impact chiefly evolutionary? This …

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Unemployment clusters across European regions and countries

Overman, Henry G.; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

European regions have experienced a polarisation of their unemployment rates between 1986 and 1996, as regions with intermediate rates have been driven by changes in regional employment, only partly offset by labour force changes. Regions'' outcomes have closely followed those of neighbouring...

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Trade shocks and industrial location: the impact of EEC accession on the UK

Overman, Henry G.; Winters, L. Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper combines establishment level production data with international trade data by port to examine the impact of accession to the EEC on the spatial distribution of UK manufacturing. We use this data to test the predictions from economic geography models of how external trade affects the...

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The spatial distribution of economic activities in the European Union

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper considers the spatial distribution of economic activities in the European Union. It has three main aims. (i) To describe the data that is available in the EU and give some idea of the rich spatial data sets that are fast becoming available at the national level. (ii) To present...

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The rise and fall of regional inequalities

Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996

This paper analyses how the degree of regional integration affects regional differences in production structures and income levels. With high transport costs, industry is spead across regions to meet final consumer demad. As transport costs fall, increasing returns interacting with labour...

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Preferential trading arrangements and industrial location

Puga, Diego; Venables, Tony - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1995

This paper considers the location effects of geographically discriminatory trade policy. A preferential move towards a customs union pulls industry into the integrating countries. When internal barriers fall below some critical level, input-output links between imperfectly competitive firms lead...

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Urbanisation patterns: European vs less developed countries

Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996

We develop a model in which the interaction between transport costs, increasing returns, and labour migration across sectors and regions creates a tendency for urban agglomeration. Demand from rural areas favours urban dispersion. European urbanisation took place mainly in the XIX Century, with...

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Transportation costs and the spatial organization of economic activity

Redding, Stephen; Turner, Matthew A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between the spatial distribution of economic activity and transportation costs. We develop a multi-region model of economic geography that we use to understand the general equilibrium implications of transportation...

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The geography of UK international trade

Overman, Henry G.; Winters, L. Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper examines how the geography of UK international trade has changed since the UK¿s accession to the European Economic Community using a newly constructed data set that gives a detailed breakdown of the UK¿s imports and exports by both port of entry and exit and commodity. Our results...

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A simple model of the juggernaut effect of trade liberalisation

Baldwin, Richard E.; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper posits a formal political economy model where the principle of reciprocity in multilateral trade talks results in the gradual elimination of tariffs. Reciprocity trade talks turn each nation’s exporters into anti-protectionists at home; they lower foreign tariffs by convincing their...

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