deliver relevant welfare gains stemming from lower production costs, smaller markups, lower prices, larger firm scale and …

Second nature geography variables are very relevant in the explanation of income disparities across regions within … countries and across countries. This paper uses the framework of the New Economic Geography to derive the structural equation … Geography ; Market Access ; Income Disparities ; Poland …

decrease in explanatory power of Market access was around 15%. -- new economic geography ; market access ; income disparities …

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

based on the theories of general equilibrium, endogenous growth and new economic geography and incorporates a multi …

also, and differentially, by the sectoral levels of trade costs. The fundamental implication for an economic geography … fundamental tension which is intricately affected by trade costs. A reduction of trade costs fosters the dispersive impact of … relative to comparative advantage, and this is more likely the lower are trade costs in increasing returns sectors and the …

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. …

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 …