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Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

competition models. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor in the core region can be taxed. Moreover, a tax … addition to core-periphery equilibria, exhibits stable equilibria with partial agglomeration. We show that a tax differential … may arise as an equilibrium of the tax game even when there is only partial agglomeration and the mobile factor does not …

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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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A Simple, Analytically Solvable Chamberlinian Agglomeration Model

Pflüger, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper presents a simple, analytically solvable Chamberlinian agglomeration model. As in the canonical core …

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Agglomeration and Economic Geography

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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Towards a Unifying Approach of the 'New Economic Geography'

Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Models of the new economic geography share a number of common conclusions, but also exhibit notable differences, in particular with respect to the shape of the location pattern and the efficiency of the market equilibrium. This reflects the fact that these models rely heavily on specific...

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Literature Overview - Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI – Recent Advances and Research Gaps

Pflüger, Michael; Blien, Uwe; Möller, Joachim; … - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 233 (2013) 1, pp. 86-116

The last decade has been shaped by dramatic developments in international trade, international investment and production, both in terms of the scale of events and in terms of their qualitative nature. Intriguing questions have been thrown up concerning the labor market impact of these...

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Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies

Pflüger, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

historically emerged as the core. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor gives unions and governments in the …

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