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The occurence of agglomerations raises several questions: How come that economic activity is agglomerated instead of evenly spread out across space? What implications do agglomerations have for welfare (earnings, employment, etc.) and economic policy? How do increased globalisation and...
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In this paper we analyse vertical industry linkages and the extent to which these work as channels for externalities. First, activity based externalities stemming from output growth and output level in vertically linked industries are tested for. Second, we aim at revealing the importance of a...
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The purpose of this paper is to test the nature of competition concerning price and capacity setting in the Norwegian airline industry after the deregulation in 1994. Did the two airlines, SAS and Braathens, compete on prices and capacities (competition), collude on prices and capacities...
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In this case study of the Swedish beer market we relate the volatility of firms' market shares to changes in their products' market shares. We focus on the four leading firms' product portfolios, and in particular the development of the market shares of old, newly introduced, and withdrawn...
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This paper uses a new economic geography model to analyze tax competition between two countries trying to attract internationally mobile capital. Each government may levy a source tax on capital and a lump sum tax on fixed labor. If industry is concentrated in one of the countries, the analysis...
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The paper focuses on how localised external, economies of scale created by knowledge spillovers, encourage industrial agglomeration and cause uneven technological development internationally.
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Applying a newly developed CGE-model, we present scenarios for the future economic geography of Europe. The model divides the world into ten regions, of which five are European, and there are 14 industries, of which 12 are imperfectly competitive. With a complete input-output structure, the...
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The paper uses a full-scale CGE-model -calibrated on 1992 data- to investigate the effects of European integration on the location of industrial production. Our results reveal large differences among individual industries.
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