key insight that emerges is that the interaction between agglomeration economies and comparative advantage involves a … comparative advantage in sectors governed by this force whilst the impact of agglomeration economies is enhanced by trade cost … small economies is not only shaped by the primitives that determine agglomeration economies and comparative advantage but …

This paper presents a simple Chamberlinian agglomeration model which, like the canonical core-periphery (CP) model … complete agglomeration predicted by the CP model. …

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

The core-periphery model by Krugman (1991) has two 'dramatic' implications: catastrophic agglomeration and locational … and easily reversible transition from symmetry to agglomeration. …

integration. The ?new economic geography? world assumes mobile entrepreneurs which can relocate thus bringing agglomeration forces …

competition models. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor in the core region can be taxed. Moreover, a tax … addition to the 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 …

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 …

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