employment. Innovations in transport technologies and in information and communications technologies have radically reduced the … costs of trading goods and have also made an increasing share of services tradeable. We propose a tractable micro … services which exert an agglomerative force and trade costs and comparative advantage which act as dispersion forces. …

production technology and utility functions, interregional trade pooling, concave-shaped iceberg transport costs, the Armington … wider effects of strategic transport and land use development options. We examine the insights afforded by a SCGE model … relative to those provided by existing land use and transport models into the effectiveness of transport and land use …

Japanese firms operating in both their home countries and emerging economies. About the cost structure, costs depending on … quantity and quality(named gproduction costs h) and those depending only on quality (named gR&D costs h) are discussed. With … production and R&D costs, three types of costs are examined. Type 1 costs have no R&D costs. Type 2 costs have both, and R …

for this puzzle. They explain that an improvement in transport technology can increase the transport costs, because it … transport cost and trade cost. ii) this phenomenon is due to contract incompleteness. However, the mechanism that we underline … is quite different: in our model, based on a Dixit-Stiglitz increasing return to scale technology, a fall in transport …

method proposed by L. Bezrukov, which yields to estimate continental location in transport-geographic terms. This method … inland waterways suitable for sea transport. The estimate proves that there is in Canada an interesting mix of giant inland … Canadian eucumene by having increased transport, economic and geographical access to the sea. Comparison of transport …

Economic Geography. Thus, the paper is related to this literature as well, but lacks another essential feature of this …

locational equilibrium of both groups. This is considered both with and without moving costs. Then we consider restrictions to …. In a last section, we consider the impact of transport infrastructure, a numeric overweight of one group and elaborate …