of trade. In our model, carriers supply transport services for shipping manufactured goods, and freight rates are set to …

'agglomeration in a system of cities' in which both intra-city trade and inter-city trade are considered. Enriching both the … economic (i.e. intensity of trade) integration, the higher is the magnitude of the inefficiency. From a theoretical point of …

incidence on trade in Asia-tariffs or freight costs? Since international transport costs, to a great extent, depend on ocean … freight rates, the next step is to understand the relative importance of ocean freight rates in trade in Asia. The chapter …

Parameterbereiche existieren in denen die Unternehmen nach einer exogenen Senkung der Transportkosten die Produktdifferenzierung …

search of a general theory. Such spatial imbalances have two possible explanations. In the first, uneven economic development … results developed in standard location theory, we use a unified framework to survey the home market effect as well as core …

We study the impact of falling trade costs and falling national transport costs on the economic geography of countries … setting, a decrease in trade costs and/or in national transport costs has direct impact on prices and wages in both countries …. This allows us to study how the variations of these parameters affect the terms of trade and the levels of welfare, as well …