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Labour Market Imperfections, International Integration and Selection

Montagna, Catia; Nocco, Antonella - Department of Economics Studies, University of Dundee - 2008

Although a large body of literature has focused on the effects of intra-firm differences on export performance, relatively little attention has been devoted to the interaction between firms' selection and international performance and labour market institutions - in contrast with the centrality...

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New Economic Geography: Empirical Evidence of the Estimation of the Nominal Wage Equation

Rodriguez, Jesus Lopez; Faiña, Andrés - In: Lecturas de Economía (2008) 69, pp. 41-62

the context of the New Economic Geography models. Results from the empirical works carried out for a sample of countries … and for the European Union confirm the theoretical predictions of the models, showing that economic geography variables …

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Frontiers of the New Economic Geography

Fujita, Masahisa; Mori, Tomoya - Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University - 2005

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

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Second Nature Geography and Regional Income Disparities in Colombia

López-Rodríguez, Jesús; Acevedo, María Cecilia - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2008

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 …

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Market Size, Trade, and Productivity

Melitz, Marc J.; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

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

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Trade and Industrial Location with Heterogeneous Labor

Amiti, Mary; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

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. …

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Market Size, Trade, and Productivity

Melitz, Marc J.; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2005

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

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Trade Integration, Firm Selection and the Costs of Non-Europe

Gatto, Massimo Del; Mion, Giordano; Ottaviano, … - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2006

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 …

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¿Hasta qué punto la perificidad económica es responsable de las diferencias en el pib per capita entre las provincias españolas?

López Rodríguez, Jesús; Márquez, Miguel A.; … - In: El Trimestre Económico LXXVIII (3) (2011) 311, pp. 583-611

This paper analyses the influence of economic remoteness in the explanation of per capita GDP disparities across Spanish provinces. In order to do so, we regress provincial per capita GDP on market access and a set of control variables using OLS and IV estimates. The results of our estimations...

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Endogenously Asymmetric Demand Shocks in a Monetary Union

Loisel, Olivier - In: Journal of Economic Integration 20 (2005), pp. 746-770

This paper presents a two-country two-industry monetary model, with intermediate inputs and transport costs, which … builds a bridge between the New Open Economy Macroeconomics and the New Economic Geography literatures. Endogenously …

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