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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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Agglomeration in a global economy: a survey

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

cluster together, turning location into a self-reinforcing process. However, agglomeration raises the price of immobile local …

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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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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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City of Dreams

Roca, Jorge De la; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Puga, Diego - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Higher ability workers benefit more from bigger cities while housing costs there are higher for everyone, and yet there is little sorting on ability. A possible explanation is that young individuals have an imperfect assessment of their ability, and, when they learn about it, early decisions...

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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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On the Number and Size of Cities

Tabuchi, Takatoshi; Thisse, Jacques-François; Zeng, Dao-Zhi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

show that there exists a path of stable equilibria such that the industry, first, experiences progressive agglomeration … of the increasing urban costs associated with the process of agglomeration. …

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Agglomeration and cross-border infrastructure

Puga, Diego - Economics Department, European Investment Bank (EIB) - 2008

This paper deals with the effects of cross-border transport infrastructure in the presence of agglomeration economies …

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