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The economic geography of labour migration: Competition, competitiveness and development
Kancs, D'Artis - 2010 - Revised
The present paper studies labour migration in the enlarged EU. Adopting the Krugman’s framework of the New Economic Geography, we are able to study both the determinants of labour migration, such as market potential, wages, cost of living on one hand, and labour migration on the other hand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523053
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Inefficient Lock-In and Subsidy Competition
Borck, Rainald - 2009
This paper shows that subsidy competition may be efficiency enhancing. We model a subsidy game among two asymmetric regions in a new trade model, where capital can freely move among regions, but capital rewards are repatriated. We study subsidy competition, starting from an equilibrium where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764278
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Spatial frictions
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2013
The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the spatial economy? We develop and quantify a novel framework to address this question at three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009697548
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Spatial frictions
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2014
The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the spatial economy? We develop and quantify a novel framework to address this question at three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410014
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Spatial Frictions
Behrens, Kristian - 2013
The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the spatial economy? We develop and quantify a novel framework to address this question at three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087411
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Silk, Regional Rivalry, and the Impact of the Port Openings in Nineteenth Century Japan
Atsumi, Toshihiro - 2009
The centre of economic activities in Japan was once in western Japan. Since the mid-nineteenth century, however, economic activities within Japan have been continuously shifting towards the east side of the country including Tokyo. Conventional wisdom associates the end of the Tokugawa feudal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205495
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The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities : Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012
cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote … a generalised version of a tractable firm selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107198
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Strategic location behaviour : temporal and spatial proximity in situation of agglomeration effects
Mayer, Thierry; Mucchielli, Jean-Louis - 1996
We address the question of competition within the location choices of firms. In a framework of agglomeration effects … agglomeration economics models which generally provide extreme results of mono-location. The Stackelberg equilibria described here … context of agglomeration economies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009623422
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Clustering policy for urban competitiveness : one-size-fits-all? : evidence from Tehran
Tousi, Sahar Nedae - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 2, pp. 1-28
raised: under what circumstances urban competitiveness depends on spatial agglomeration, and whether this agglomeration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014517004
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The uncertain city : competitve instability, skills, innovation and the strategy of agglomeration
Strange, William C.; Hejazi, Walid; Tang, Jianmin - In: Journal of urban economics 59 (2006) 3, pp. 331-351
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