Less than meets the eye: state re-regulation via regional institutionalization -- More than meets the eye: market reconfiguration at the continental level -- The continent in transition -- further reconfiguration under globalizing pressures -- Not what meets the eye: global governance North...

"The agglomeration force behind the New Economic Geography literature initiated by Krugman is based on the notion that larger markets should have a lower variety adjusted price index. Despite his Nobel Prize, there have been no tests of this idea. This paper represents the first such test. Using...