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Fujita, Masahisa; Mori, Tomoya - Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University - 2005

This paper presents an overview of recent development in the new economic geography (NEG), and discusses possible directions of its future development. Since there already exist several surveys on this topic, we focus on the selected features of the NEG which are important yet have attracted...

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Frontiers of the New Economic Geography

Fujita, Masahisa; Mori, Tomoya - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2005

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A theory of rational spatial agglomerations

Mossay, Pascal - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 43 (2013) 2, pp. 385-394

We model the behavior of rational forward-looking agents in a spatial economy. The economic geography structure is built on Fujita et al. (1999)'s racetrack economy. Workers choose optimally what to consume at each period, as well as which spatial itinerary to follow in the geographical space....

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Second Nature Geography and Regional Income Disparities in Colombia

Lopez-Rodriguez, Jesus - 2009

In this paper, we derive and estimate a New Economic Geography model for the Colombian departments.2 We first derive an econometric specification relating wages to a distance weighted sum of the volumes of economic activities of the surrounding locations. Them, we test our econometric...

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Mind the Remoteness! Income disparities across Japanese Prefectures

López-Rodríguez, Jesús; Nakamura, Daisuke - In: Estudios de Economia 38, 2 Year 2011, pp. 393-417

In this paper we analyze the role played by Market access to explain income disparities among Japanese Prefectures for different periods of time. The results of the estimations suggest that 1) Market access plays an important role in the explanation of income disparities in Japan, 2) the effect...

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On the spatial scale of industrial agglomerations

Mori, Tomoya; Smith, Tony E. - 2015

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 …

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Trade and Agglomeration: the Strategic use of Protection Revisited

Thede, Susanna - 2007

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the strategic motive for protection present in trade and agglomeration … agglomeration industry. We first investigate unilateral trade policy effects on the international production and trade pattern and … the resulting national welfare levels in a new economic geography model including several agglomeration industries. The …

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Trade, growth and geography : a synthetic approach

Dion, David-Pascal - 2004

Economic integration affects economic development through two main channels: growth and localization of the economic activities. The theories of endogenous growth and economic geography enable us to understand these mechanisms. We study in this paper their similarities and specificities before...

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Second-best cost-benefit analysis with a microfoundation of urban agglomeration

Kanemoto, Yoshitsugu - 2011

Modeling a micro-structure of agglomeration economies, this article derives a second-best benefit evaluation formula … for urban transportation improvements. Without explicitly modeling the sources of agglomeration economies, Venables (JTEP … monopolistic competition with differentiated products provides a micro-foundation of agglomeration economies. Introducing the rural …

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Invest Locally or Globally? A Normative Analysis of Transport Policies in a Footloose Capital Model with Interregional Intraregional Transportation Costs

Chiambaretto, Paul - 2011

In this paper, we introduce a distinction between interregional and intraregional transportation costs, in a footloose capital model. This allows assessing more precisely the effects of different types of transport policies, on the spatial distribution of activities. From a normative point of...

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