-EU trade costs by 5 per cent would have generated a productivity gain of roughly 2 per cent. Productivity losses and gains …, however, vary a lot across countries and sectors depending on market accessibility and trade costs, which maps into di …

caused an average productivity loss of roughly 13 per cent, whereas a reduction of intra-EU trade costs by 5 per cent would … countries and sectors depending on market accessibility and trade costs. We provide evidence that our results are robust to …

trade costs, single industry with local factor advantage and two industries with comparative advantages for any trade costs …

. No clear answer emerges for the following two reasons: (i) except for small range of transport cost values, there is …

In this paper, we derive and estimate a New Economic Geography model for the Colombian departments.2 We first derive an … empirical results confirm the theoretical predictions of our model, showing that second nature geography factors (access to …

extents through asymmetric trade costs. We believe this provides a useful modeling framework that is particularly well suited …

We generalize the model of Krugman (1991) to allow for asymmetric trade costs between regions and for (asymmetric …) trade costs that are internal to the regions. We find that industrial activity, in a region, is enhanced by higher costs of … importing and lower costs of exporting (more precisely, by a higher ratio between the two trade costs). This suggests that …

We show in the framework of a new economic geography model that when labor is heterogenous and productivity depends on …. The forces against agglomeration are the existence of trade costs and monopoly power in the labor market. We show that … costs. …