Market structure is determined by the entry and exit decisions of individual producers. These decisions are driven by expectations of future profits which, in turn, depend on the nature of competition within the market. In this paper we estimate a dynamic, structural model of entry and exit in...

It has long been an article of faith amongst regional economists that increasing returns to scale are necessary to explain the punctiform location of economic activity and population. However, there is no consensus in the empirical literature over whether returns to scale are constant or...

Roberts M. (2004) The growth performances of the GB counties: some new empirical evidence for 1977-1993, Reg. Studies 38, 149-165. This paper presents an empirical analysis of the growth performances of the GB counties between the late 1970s and early 1990s. Most notable amongst the findings is...

The paper presents a formalization of Kaldor's two-sector agriculture-industry model of economic growth. It analyzes the model under two different scenarios. The first scenarioânamely, that of idealized (relative) price adjustment in which growth is unconstrained by effective demandâis already...

We develop a two-country labour-market model characterised by union wage-bargaining, in which the unemployed incur individual-specific costs of seeking work abroad. We explore the effects on equilibrium unemployment in each country of changes in union bargaining strength, the ratio of...

A model of cumulative causation is extended to incorporate endogenous structural change. This is achieved via the use of a non-linear feedback of the growth rate on to the income elasticity of demand for exports. The result is a model that, under certain conditions, exhibits chaotic switches...

This article presents some new estimates of the degree of returns to scale for European regional manufacturing, for the period 1986—2002. To obtain these estimates, the article makes use of a Verdoorn law framework, estimating both demand- and supply-side versions of the law. Estimation...

There is some evidence of a non-monotonic relationship between public debt and economic growth. With reference to the Diamond (1965) OLG model, we provide a rationale for this possibility; (i) where the financial sector is monopsonistic; (ii) where the acquisition of its equity constitutes a form...