framework. We consider effective as well as statutory corporate tax rates and include several measures of agglomeration forces … negative effect on corporate tax rates while agglomeration forces influence tax rates positively, though the latter result is … sensitive to how agglomeration is measured. …

benchmark case with certainty about where agglomeration takes place, a majority of voters favour economic integration and the … integration is pursued. Finally, the standard view that agglomeration is unambiguously beneficial to residents in the industrial …

We empirically analyze the impact of corporate tax rates and agglomeration economies on FDI using panel data on … agglomeration forces and how these may explain differences in tax policies between new and old member countries. The empirical …, agglomeration economies appear to play a somewhat more important role for the amount of investment made within the EU15. In addition …

increasing in the benefits of agglomeration. Greater incompatibility between technologies also increases the risk of rejecting …

different regions. Lowering the trade costs beyond a critical level triggers an agglomeration of industry in the larger region …. This process of agglomeration is gradual in nature and trade costs have to be successively lowered for a full …-scale agglomeration to take place. …

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the strategic motive for protection present in trade and agglomeration … agglomeration industry. We first investigate unilateral trade policy effects on the international production and trade pattern and … the resulting national welfare levels in a new economic geography model including several agglomeration industries. The …