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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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Agglomeration,Trade and Selection

Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper studies how firm heterogeneity in terms of productivity affects the balance between agglomeration and … endogenous markups. It shows that firm heterogeneity matters. However, whether it shifts the balance from agglomeration to … `evenness'. Accordingly, the role of firm heterogeneity in selection models of agglomeration can not be fully understood without …

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Spatial Mismatch and Skill Accumulation

Monfort, Philippe; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

markets are geographically segmented. This generates an agglomeration force that can offset the dispersion force due to local …

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