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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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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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We study the impact of falling international trade costs and falling national transport costs on the economic geography of countries involved in an integration process. Each country is formed by two regions between which labor is mobile, whereas there is no international mobility. Goods can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010894726
either unskilled labor mobility, or rent-seeking behavior, or both, are likely to favor the occurence of agglomeration and of … rural-urban transfers towards the agglomeration. The size of the elite and the magnitude of the tax burden that falls on the …
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deregulation of the transport sector leads to more inefficient agglomeration. This latter change may, quite surprisingly, increase …
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We distill the main insights from recent trade models on firms' responses to globalisation. Our primary aim is to assess the economic impact and the welfare implications of the resulting reallocation of resources across firms and countries. In so doing, we bring theory into life through the...
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there, thus working against specialization and the agglomeration of firms. Consequently, a more even spatial distribution of …
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presence of density (dis)economies. We show that agglomeration (or dispersion) within a country may be induced by the geography … equilibria and catastrophic agglomeration in both countries, density diseconomies lead to a smooth agglomeration process …
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economic geography model. Density economies may well delay the occurrence of agglomeration when compared to the case without … such economies, while agglomeration is both more likely and more gradual under density diseconomies than under density …
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We extend the model by Krugman (1980) to a multi-country set-up and show that the ‘home-market effect’ highlighted with two countries does not readily extend to such a general setting. In particular, we prove that the most important result, namely the disproportionate causation from demand...
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