We study the effects of a decrease in trade costs on the spatial distribution of industry in a multi-regional economy …, when a rise in the regional population of workers generates higher urban costs. We show that high and low trade costs imply … that all regions involve a positive share of the industrial sector. When urban costs are linear, there exists a stable …

This paper analyzes the problem of altering the cost structure within an oligopoly, in the presence of costs of … manipulation. Oligopolistic firms (which differ from each other in production costs) compete a la Cournot in the second stage …, taking as given firm-specific taxees or input prices. In the first stage, a government, or a regulatory agency, or a …

This paper describes the economic and social costs of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in Ireland. To date … there have been no Irish studies on the costs of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. Given that the proportion of … beneficial to researchers and policymakers alike.In this paper, costs are assessed using a burden of illness framework, whereby …