equilibrium framework. We investigate the impact of pollution by focusing on the interaction between location advantages and …Geographical economics analyzes the endogenous determination of the location of economic activity in a general … negative pollution externalities associated with local production. We distinguish between two goods (food and manufactures) and …

A central feature of many models of location choice - whether of firms or households, within or across cities - is the … role of local interactions or spillovers, whereby the payoffs from choosing a location depend in part on the number or … the location decision to depend on both fixed local attributes (including unobserved attributes) and such local …

spillovers cannot be distinguished from unobservable local attributes using just the observed location decisions of individuals …

distances within a country for instance due to the location behaviour of exporting firms matter to international trade. In this …

This paper demonstrates that a pollution tax with a fixed cost component may lead, by itself, to segregation between … locations and two industries (clean and dirty) where pollution is a by-product of dirty good manufacturing. Under proper … outcome when there is a fixed cost component of the pollution tax. Moreover, a stratified Pareto optimum can never be …