We use a model of combined endogenous growth and economic geography to study the impact of regional economic … ideas are two faces of the same coin. We show that the progressive decrease in transaction costs through the phasing out of …

activities. The theories of endogenous growth and economic geography enable us to understand these mechanisms. We study in this …

production technology and utility functions, interregional trade pooling, concave-shaped iceberg transport costs, the Armington … wider effects of strategic transport and land use development options. We examine the insights afforded by a SCGE model … relative to those provided by existing land use and transport models into the effectiveness of transport and land use …

employment. Innovations in transport technologies and in information and communications technologies have radically reduced the … costs of trading goods and have also made an increasing share of services tradeable. We propose a tractable micro … services which exert an agglomerative force and trade costs and comparative advantage which act as dispersion forces. …

models, in the so-called new economic geography framework, is sensitive to the standard assumption that there is a sole … the resulting national welfare levels in a new economic geography model including several agglomeration industries. The … jointly suggest that the stark argument for the strategic use of protection present in standard new economic geography models …

imperfect labor mobility in an economic geography model, I show that external demand shocks can improve allocative efficiency …