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 …

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 …

This paper provides empirical evidence on the location of export-oriented manufacturing firms in Africa (South Africa …), and on how the patterns of location has changed over the past decade after the country embarked on trade liberalization …' location, with more than 70 per cent of manufacturing exports in South Africa originating from a band of 100 km from a port …

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 …