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Peaks and troughs in the spatial distributions of population, employment and wealth are a universal phenomenon in search of a general theory. Such spatial imbalances have two possible explanations. In the first, uneven economic development can be seen as the result of the uneven distribution of...
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We study the impact of falling trade costs and falling national transport costs on the economic geography of countries involved in an integration process. Two regions between which labour is mobile form each country, but there is no international factor mobility. Commodities can be traded both...
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agglomeration of economic activities. …
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This Paper estimates the agglomeration benefits that arise from vertical linkages between firms. The analysis is based … agglomeration benefits of the spatial variation in firm level nominal wages. Unusually detailed intermediate input data allow us to …
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the aim of comparing the only two possible market outcomes, i.e. agglomeration and dispersion. More precisely, we use the … plausible values of the main parameters suggest that there might be excessive agglomeration. …
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We study the impacts of changes in international trade and domestic transport costs on the internal geography of countries in the presence of geographical asymmetries.
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the quality of the match between job and worker, trade liberalization may lead to industrial agglomeration and inter …-industry trade. The agglomeration force is the improvement in the quality of matches when firms recruit from a bigger pool of labour …. The forces against agglomeration are the existence of trade costs and monopoly power in the labour market. We show that …
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The Paper examines the interactions between economic integration and population agglomeration in a middle product … the final good is non-traded, whereas the intermediate goods are traded. We find that employment agglomeration and output …
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We consider an economic geography model in which all firms and workers are mobile, but the agglomeration of firms and … agglomeration arises for low transport costs. We also show that firms supplying non-tradable consumer services are more agglomerated …
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show that there exists a path of stable equilibria such that the industry, first, experiences progressive agglomeration … of the increasing urban costs associated with the process of agglomeration. …
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