addressed. In particular, we investigate the effects of transport costs for agricultural goods, spatial spillovers, the presence … deconcentration of manufacturing is more marked the higher the transport costs for agricultural goods, the stronger the positive … Transportkosten für Agrargüter, räumliche Überschwappeffekte, die Existenz von nicht handelbaren Dienstleistungen und eine …

processes by analytically identifying the level of trade costs that triggers catastrophic agglomeration. Interestingly, this …

increasing returns to scale, transport costs, congestion costs, and migration. In result, the agglomeration pattern might be … catastrophic or smooth depending on congestion costs. The transition between both patterns is smooth. …

emerging as market equilibrium is ?bubbleshaped?, i.e. it features dispersion of firms both at high and low trade costs and … trade costs. Our central finding is that the market equilibrium is characterised by over-agglomeration for high trade costs … and under-agglomeration for low trade costs. For very high and very low levels of trade costs as well as for an …