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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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

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

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 …