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 …

'agglomeration in a system of cities' in which both intra-city trade and inter-city trade are considered. Enriching both the … literature on integration/agglomeration and that on city size and formation, we show that: i) devolution results in over-agglomeration …

model of city formation with heterogeneous firms and international trade. We find that agglomeration economies have …

urban systems, considering the agglomeration mechanism and effects of different regional and urban policies. Urban … patterns, which are influenced by residential and industrial agglomeration forces and policy interventions. The results … institutional agglomeration (or city). From a methodological point of view, we contribute to improve the application of territorial …

Standard approaches to studying industrial agglomeration have been in terms of scalar measures of agglomeration within … each industry. But such measures often fail to distinguish spatial scales of agglomeration. In a previous paper, Mori and … agglomeration based on an explicit method for detecting spatial clusters. The first, designated as the global extent of industrial …

-off between the agglomeration and dispersion forces, in the form of pollution from stationary forces, environmental policy …

environmentalgoals may sometimes come at the expense ofreduced agglomeration economies, but may actually sometimes alsostimulate these …