features of the recent economic geography literature while allowing for the derivation of analytical results by means of simple … migration in the process of agglomeration instead of the simple Marshallian model used so far in the economic geography …

We study the effects of a decrease in inter-city transport costs on the spatial distribution of population in a multi … transport costs are reduced gradually from a very high level to a very low level, there is a first phase in which large cities … to vary as transport costs are reduced from large to small values, it first decreases and then increases …

So far the contribution of New Economic Geography (NEG) has been mainly positive. Normative analysis and policy …

of a new class of trade models: the New New Trade Theory which accounts for firm heterogeneity and market entry costs …

difference between any two tariff rates exactly equals 100% of the difference between the foreign firms' marginal costs, the home …

activities. The theories of endogenous growth and economic geography enable us to understand these mechanisms. We study in this …

based on the theories of general equilibrium, endogenous growth and new economic geography and incorporates a multi …