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Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

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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Inter-regional and International Trade: Seventy Years After Ohlin

Behrens, Kristian; Gaigné, Carl; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

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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A Simple Model of Economic Geography à la Helpman-Tabuchi

Murata, Yasusada; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

agglomeration of economic activities. …

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Transport Cost Decline and Regional Inequalities: Evidence from France

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Lafourcade, Miren - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

dispersive forces become prevalent at the country level, agglomeration incentives strenghtens specialization within a large …

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Agglomeration and Welfare: The Core-Periphery Model in the Light of Bentham, Kaldor and Rawls

Charlot, Sylvie; Gaigné, Carl; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

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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Is remoteness a locational disadvantage?

Behrens, Kristian; Gaigné, Carl; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2012

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 Productivity Advantages of Large Cities: Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote … a generalised version of a tractable firm selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the …

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Labour Pooling, Labour Poaching and Spatial Clustering

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

When firms cluster in the same local labour market, they face a trade-off between the benefits of labour pooling (i.e., access to workers whose knowledge helps reduce costs) and the costs of labour poaching (i.e., loss of some key workers to competition and the indirect effect of a higher wage...

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The productivity advantages of large cities: Distinguishing agglomeration from firm selection

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Firms are more productive on average in larger cities. Two explanations have been offered: agglomeration economies … selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in larger cities left-truncates the productivity … distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the distribution. We assess the relative importance of …

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Economic Integration and Agglomeration in a Middle Product Economy

Peng, Shin-Kun; Thisse, Jacques-François; Wang, Ping - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

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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