This paper develops a two-region, two-sector general equilibriun model of location. The location of agricultural production is fixed, but ionopolistcally competitive manufacturing finns choose their location to maximize profits. If transportation costs are high, returns to scale weak, and the...

This article attempts to explore how key notions from Evolutionary Economics, such as selection, path-dependency, chance and increasing returns, may be applied to two key topics in Economic Geography. The first issue is the problem of how to specify the (potential) impact of the spatial...

French Abstract: La continuité spatiale se traduit-elle par une continuité logique dans la localisation des activités ? Différents facteurs expliquent les complémentarités d’espaces continus, qu’ils soient liés au fonctionnement de l’économie ou à des actions volontaristes. Mais...

We show that standard economic geography model results are enriched by the consideration of potential international differences in productivity levels, because we can give a more complete description of centripetal and centrifugal forces. These will be classified as fixed- and...

This paper reviews recent research on geography and trade. One of the key empirical findings over the last decade has been the role of geography in shaping the distributional consequences of trade. One of the major theoretical advances has been the development of quantitative spatial models that...