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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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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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In this paper the relationship between firm growth and external knowledge sources, such as related firms and universities, is studied. The spatial characteristics of these relationships are examined by geolocating firms into a more realistic relational space using travel time distances and using...
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of agglomeration effects on growth prospects of firms is less clear. Because of the heterogeneity of industries …, different agglomeration mechanisms, or the way how industrial clusters are identified and spatially delimited, the conclusions … separately. Therefore, for each firm a micro-geographically defined agglomeration measure is calculated, which is free of the …
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-geographically defined agglomeration measures, free of the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP), are used to study 23 industries. The spatial … impacts of agglomeration of related economic and knowledge generating activities are examined by using travel time distances … prospects tend to be hampered by the agglomeration of own-industry employment, but improved by proximate scientific activity …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between crime and agglomeration where the land, labor, product, and crime markets …
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