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The costs of remoteness: evidence from German division and reunification

Redding, Stephen; Sturm, Daniel M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper exploits the division of Germany after the Second World War and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990 as a natural experiment to provide evidence of the importance of market access for economic development. In line with a standard new economic geography model, we find...

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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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Endowments, market potential, and industrial location: evidence from interwar Poland (1918-1939)

Wolf, Nikolaus - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

The paper explores the determinants of industry location across interwar Poland. After more than 120 years of political and economic separation, Poland was reunified at the end of 1918. In consequence, its industry faced massive structural changes: the removal of internal tariff barriers and...

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Strengthening economic linkages between Leeds and Manchester: feasibility and implications (structural model appendix)

Mion, Giordano - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This technical Appendix describes the structural model used as part of the Spatial Eco- nomic Research Centre's work for the Northern Way on linkages between the Manchester and Leeds City Regions. A summary of the research, as well as a full report of the findings, can be found on the web-sites...

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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 auto-component supply chain in China and India: a benchmark study

Sutton, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which Chinese and Indian autocomponent producers have advanced towards international best practice levels of productivity and quality. The report is based on a survey of nine car manufacturers in China and six in India; a range of general...

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Trade liberalization and industrial restructuring through mergers and acquisitions

Breinlich, Holger - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper analyzes mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as a previously neglected channel of industrial restructuring in the face of trade liberalization. Using the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement of 1989 as a natural experiment, I show that trade liberalization leads to a significant...

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Firm heterogeneity and aggregate welfare

Melitz, Marc J.; Redding, Stephen J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We examine how firm heterogeneity influences aggregate welfare through endogenous firm selection. We consider a … aggregate welfare implications, with larger welfare gains from reductions in trade costs in the heterogenous firm model …. Calibrating parameters to key U.S. aggregate and firm statistics, we find these differences in aggregate welfare to be …

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Is Poland the next Spain?

Caselli, Francesco; Tenreyro, Silvana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

We revisit Western Europe’s record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both higher rates of physical capital accumulation and...

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The ASEAN Free Trade Agreement: impact on trade flows and external trade barriers

Calvo-Pardo, Hector; Freund, Caroline; Ornelas, Emanuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Using detailed data on trade and tariffs from 1992-2007, we examine how the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement has affected trade with non-members and external tariffs facing non-members. First, we examine the effect of preferential and external tariff reduction on import growth from ASEAN insiders and...

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