for production structure and trade. We use a framework that nests an increasing returns model of economic geography … featuring market effects trade models to account for the structure of regional production in Japan. We find support for the … existence of economic geography effects in eight of nineteen manufacturing sectors, including such important ones as …

for production structure and trade. We use a framework that nests an increasing returns model of economic geography … featuring market effects trade models to account for the structure of regional production in Japan. We find support for the … existence of economic geography effects in eight of nineteen manufacturing sectors, including such important ones as …

for forty regions of Japan. Our results identify important effects of a region's own size, as well as cost linkages …-Arrow-Romer externalities do not appear to be robust in our data. Landlocked status does not matter for productivity of regions in Japan. The … differences. A simple counterfactual shows that if economic activity were spread evenly over the forty regions of Japan, aggregate …

for forty regions of Japan. Our results identify important effects of a region's own size, as well as cost linkages …-Arrow-Romer externalities do not appear to be robust in our data. Landlocked status does not matter for productivity of regions in Japan. The … differences. A simple counterfactual shows that if economic activity were spread evenly over the forty regions of Japan, aggregate …