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History and industry location: evidence from German airports

Redding, Stephen; Sturm, Daniel.M; Wolf, Nikolaus - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

A central prediction of a large class of theoretical models is that industry location is not necessarily uniquely determined by fundamentals. In these models, historical accident or expectations determine which of several steady-state locations is selected. Despite the theoretical prominence of...

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History and Industry Location: Evidence from German Airports

Redding, Stephen; Sturm, Daniel M.; Wolf, Nikolaus - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

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The costs of remoteness: evidence from German division and reunification

Redding, Stephen; Sturm, Daniel M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper exploits the division of Germany after the Second World War and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990 as a natural experiment to provide evidence of the importance of market access for economic development. In line with a standard new economic geography model, we find...

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The costs of remoteness: evidence from German division and reunification

Redding, Stephen; Sturm, Daniel M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

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Missing gains from trade?

Melitz, Marc J.; Redding, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

The theoretical result that there are welfare gains from trade is a central tenet of international economics. In a … class of trade models that satisfy a "gravity equation," the welfare gains from trade can be computed using only the open … economy domestic trade share and the elasticity of trade with respect to variable trade costs. The measured welfare gains from …

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Transportation costs and the spatial organization of economic activity

Redding, Stephen; Turner, Matthew A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

, population, trade and industry composition. Guided by the predictions of this model, we review the empirical literature on the …

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The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification

Redding, Stephen; Sturm, Daniel M. - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2005

This paper exploits the division of Germany after the Second World War and the reunificationof East and West Germany in 1990 as a natural experiment to provide evidenceof the importance of market access for economic development. In line with a standard neweconomic geography model, we find that...

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The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification

Redding, Stephen; Sturm, Daniel M. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

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The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification

Redding, Stephen; Sturm, Daniel - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

This paper exploits the division of Germany after the Second World War and the re-unification of East and West Germany in 1990 as a natural experiment to provide evidence of the importance of market access for economic development. In line with a standard new economic geography model, we find...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069335

The Linear Algebra of Economic Geography Models

Kleinman, Benny; Liu, Ernest; Redding, Stephen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

-available trade data and the values of trade and migration elasticities. They have an intuitive interpretation in terms of underlying …

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