We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade on interregional inequality within countries. We … estimate a model derived from a structural economic geography approach where interregional inequality depends on weighted trade … shares and trade costs and where we can derive an aggregate freeness of trade measure. These measures are instrumented based …

This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational … 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international borders decrease regional income per capita, while trade agreements at … international borders increase regional income per capita by about the same magnitude. The positive marginal effect of trade …

reduced rather than increased agglomeration in the face of trade-cost reductions. -- economic geographic ; location choice … in non-tariff barriers to trade would be expected to have an impact on where pharmaceutical multinationals locate … production within the EU. Using discrete-choice models, we study the determinants of multinationals’ location choices in terms of …

trade integration on productivity. For this purpose we address the link between trade and productivity thanks to knowledge … transfer of technology allowed by bilateral trade and investment, regional trade integration has a positive impact on long …

The attractiveness for the location of multinational firms is seen as a crucial issue for the development and …

The aim of this paper is to study the location decisions of upstream and downstream industries when transport costs in …