This paper examines how the decline of communication costs between management and production facilities within firms … and the decrease in trade costs of manufactured goods affect the spatial organization of a two-region economy with multi …-unit/multi-plant firms. The development of information technology decreases the costs of communication and trade costs. Thus, the …

This paper presents an overview of recent development in the new economic geography (NEG), and discusses possible …

stronger the market power of firms as well as the intensity of increasing returns to scale and the lower the trade costs. As …

features of the recent economic geography literature while allowing for the derivation of analytical results by means of simple … migration in the process of agglomeration instead of the simple Marshallian model used so far in the economic geography …

-agglomeration (fewer cities, which tend to be over-sized) and low welfare; ii) the higher the level of spatial (i.e. transport costs) and …

stronger the market power of firms as well as the intensity of increasing returns to scale and the lower the trade costs. As …

This paper focuses on two distint facets of globalization: the decrease in the trade costs of goods and the decline of … communication costs between headquarters and production facilities within firms. When the unskilled have about the same wage in the … two regions, the decrease of these costs fosters the gradual agglomeration of plants in the core region accommodating the …

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. When the number of cities is unaffected by … falling trade costs, small cities become smaller for large trade costs, medium-sized cities become smaller for medium values …

This Paper focuses on two distinct facets of globalization: the decrease in the trade costs of goods and the decline of … communication costs between headquarters and production facilities within firms. When the unskilled have about the same wage in the … two regions, the decrease of these costs fosters the gradual agglomeration of plants in the core region accommodating the …