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Comparative advantage and agglomeration of economic activity

Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016

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 …

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Taste Heterogeneity, Labour Mobility and Economic Geography

Tabuchi, Takatoshi; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

likely to involve too much agglomeration compared to the former. …

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Pollution and City Size: Can Cities be too Small?

Borck, Rainald; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016

We study the optimal and equilibrium size of cities in a city system model with environmental pollution. Pollution is related to city size through the effect of population on production, commuting, and housing consumption. With symmetric cities, if pollution is local or per capita pollution...

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Comparative Advantage and Agglomeration of Economic Activity

Pflüger, Michael P.; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016

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Trade and Location with Land as a Productive Factor

Pflüger, Michael P.; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

into account. Our analysis furthermore implies that market-size based agglomeration forces are too weak to overcome the … a low elasticity of substitution) is very strong. This suggests that further agglomeration forces have to be invoked to … explain the agglomeration of economic activity observed in the real world. …

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Regional Specialization and Transport Costs

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

We consider an economic geography model in which all firms and workers are mobile, but the agglomeration of firms and … agglomeration arises for low transport costs. We also show that firms supplying non-tradable consumer services are more agglomerated …

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Pollution and city size : can cities be too small?

Borck, Rainald; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016

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Services, comparative advantage and agglomeration of economic activity : a Ricardo-Marshall model ; conference paper

Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2014 - This version: March 1, 2014, Preliminary

The last century has witnessed dramatic changes in the world economy. The service (tertiary) sector, which at the beginning of the 20th century was of little importance relative to agriculture and manufacturing, has become the dominant sector today, accounting for 80% and more of value added in...

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Local Politics and Economic Geography

Berliant, Marcus; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Economic Geography model, agglomeration occurs for economic reasons whereas voter stratification occurs due to political …

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Local politics and economic geography

Berliant, Marcus; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Economic Geography model, agglomeration occurs for economic reasons whereas voter stratification occurs due to political …

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