There is a wide consensus among international institutions and national governments in favor of compact (i.e. densely populated) cities as a way to improve the ecological performance of the transport system. Indeed, when both the intercity and intra-urban distributions of activities are given, a...

We build a model of trade and location with two countries which differ with respect to their level of productivity. Public expenditures are shared between a subsidy to firms reducing the labor cost and another one to households. We show that the high-productivity country pays a lower net subsidy...

We analyze the impact of labour market rigidities on tax competition betweentwo imperfectly integrated countries. Following a shift from a competitive to a unionizedlabour market in both countries, the capital tax can be adjusted upward in the countrywith the less rigid labour market, whereas...

Although economic historians consider technical change as being a significant factor explaining the evolution of the spatial organization of an economy, economic geography still fails to address this important issue. By developing a simple two-region general equilibrium model under monopolistic...