This paper examines how the decline of communication costs between management and production facilities within firms … and the decrease in trade costs of manufactured goods affect the spatial organization of a two-region economy with multi …-unit/multi-plant firms. The development of information technology decreases the costs of communication and trade costs. Thus, the …

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 …

This paper presents an overview of recent development in the new economic geography (NEG), and discusses possible …

centripetal forces. A finding of the basic model is that transport costs can be crucial for the emergence of a center …The achievement of the New Economic Geography is that a way for formal declaration as a result of agglomeration …

stronger the market power of firms as well as the intensity of increasing returns to scale and the lower the trade costs. As …

-agglomeration (fewer cities, which tend to be over-sized) and low welfare; ii) the higher the level of spatial (i.e. transport costs) and …

the main features of the recent economic geography literature while allowing for the derivation of analytical results by …

This Paper focuses on two distinct facets of globalization: the decrease in the trade costs of goods and the decline of … communication costs between headquarters and production facilities within firms. When the unskilled have about the same wage in the … two regions, the decrease of these costs fosters the gradual agglomeration of plants in the core region accommodating the …