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 …

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 …

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 …

We develop a structural framework that allows us to quantify the evolution of aggregate bilateral trade costs and … costs have fallen by 3.1% per year on average, we find a strong negative correlation between observed trade cost and markup …

We incorporate the now standard knowledge-capital model of multinational firms in a new economic geography setting. The …

, due to adjustment costs of technology adoption …