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Trade costs, market access and economic geography : why the empirical specification of trade costs matters

Bosker, E. Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2007

Trade costs are a crucial in new economic geography (NEG) models. The unavailability of actual trade costs data requires the approximation of trade costs. Most NEG studies do not deal with the ramifications of the particular trade costs specification used. This paper shows that the specification...

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Comparative advantage, the rank-size rule, and Zipf's law

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2006

Using a comprehensive international trade data set we investigate empirical regularities (known as Zipf’s Law or the rank-size rule) for the distribution of the interaction between countries as measured by revealed comparative advantage. Using the recently developed estimator by Gabaix and...

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Exchange Rate Regimes and Location

Ricci, Luca A. - 2006

This paper investigates the effects of fixed versus flexible exchange rates on firms` location choices and on countries` specialization patterns. In a two-country, two-differentiated-goods monetary model, demand, supply, and monetary (as well as exchange rate) shocks arise after wages are set...

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Trade Costs, Market Access and Economic Geography : Why the Empirical Specification of Trade Costs Matters

Bosker, Erik Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2021

Trade costs are crucial in new economic geography (NEG) models. The unavailability of actual trade costs data requires the approximation of trade costs. Most NEG studies do not deal with the ramifications of the particular trade costs specification used. This paper shows that the specification...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316892

Exchange Rate Regimes and Location

Ricci, Luca A. - 1998

This paper investigates the effects of fixed versus flexible exchange rates on firms' location choices and on countries' specialization patterns. In a two-country, two-differentiated-goods monetary model, demand, supply, and monetary (as well as exchange rate) shocks arise after wages are set...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079843

Comparative advantage and agglomeration of economic activity

Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016

key insight that emerges is that the interaction between agglomeration economies and comparative advantage involves a … comparative advantage in sectors governed by this force whilst the impact of agglomeration economies is enhanced by trade cost … small economies is not only shaped by the primitives that determine agglomeration economies and comparative advantage but …

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Survival of the fittest in cities : urbanisation and inequality

Behrens, Kristian; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - 2013

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Agglomeration economies and urban productivity

Torres Gutierrez, Tania Paola; Ordóñez, Jessica Andrea - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 6 (2019) 1, pp. 17-24

This study explores the relationship between agglomeration economies and industrial productivity between 1980 and 2010 …

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The economics of density : evidence from the Berlin Wall ; conference paper

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Redding, Stephen; Sturm, Daniel; … - 2013

This paper develops a quantitative model of city structure to separate agglomeration forces, dispersion forces and …

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Modelling the folk theorem of spatial economics: a heterogeneous regional growth model

Klarl, Torben - 2009

regional growth model, which links first time knowledge spillover, agglomeration, distribution of per capita productivity and … of knowledge affect agglomeration and distribution of per capita productivity. One of key findings is, that grasp of …

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