This paper constructs a footloose entrepreneur model with Diamond–Mortensen–Pissarides job search and matching frictions in the manufacturing sector. It captures unemployment adjustment both within the manufacturing sector and in the regional labor market. The within-sector unemployment rate...

In a two-country four-region setting, this paper analyzes the impact of trade infrastructure on firm locations when they interact weakly in Cournot competition, and capital is perfectly footloose. Trade infrastructure costs are additive in firm production and countries differ in their quality of...