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Spatial implications of international trade under the new economic geography approach
Ramírez Grajeda, Mauricio; de León Arias, Adrián - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Sweden, for his “analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity”. In this paper we survey the literature, known …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578262
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Trade openness and city interaction
Ramírez Grajeda, Mauricio; Sheldon, Ian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The New Economic Geography framework supports the idea that economic integration plays an important role in explaining urban concentration. By using Fujita et al. (1999) as a theoretical motivation, and information on the 5 most important cities of 84 countries, we find that the size of main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578289
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Trade and Location with Horizontal and Vertical Multi-Region Firms
Ekholm, Karolina; Forslid, Rikard - 1998
model of trade and location. More specifically, we introduce horizontal and vertical multi-region firms into the core … introduction of vertical multi-region firms that can separate the location of headquarter activities from the location of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334844
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Geography and comparative advantage
Ricci, Luca Antonio - 1996
This paper investigates the relation between agglomeration of economic activity and the pattern of specialization of countries. We develop a model encompassing a Ricardian comparative advantage, increasing returns to scale, product differentiation, monopolistic competition, trade costs, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397940
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Geography and comparative advantage
Ricci, Luca Antonio - 1996
This paper investigates the relation between agglomeration of economic activity and the pattern of specialization of countries. We develop a model encompassing a Ricardian comparative advantage, increasing returns to scale, product differentiation, monopolistic competition, trade costs, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009623423
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Geography and comparative advantage
Ricci, Luca Antonio - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 1996
This paper investigates the relation between agglomeration of economic activity and the pattern of specialization of countries. We develop a model encompassing a Ricardian comparative advantage, increasing returns to scale, product differentiation, monopolistic competition, trade costs, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958399
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Unionized Wage Setting and the Location of Firms
Bruyne, Karolien De - Vlaams Instituut voor Economie en Samenleving (VIVES), … - 2009
We analyze how unionized wage setting a¤ects the location of firms. We find that the degree of centralization (at firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479252
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PRODUCT INNOVATION, EXPORT AND LOCATION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006
export flows, where the flow of each variety is associated with the exporting firm’s location, export value, price and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644959
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Trade and Location with Horizontal and Vertical Multi-Region Firms
Ekholm, Karolina; Forslid, Rikard - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
model of trade and location. More specifically, we introduce horizontal and vertical multi-region firms into the core … introduction of vertical multi-region firms that can separate the location of headquarter activities from the location of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645400
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Explaining the Location of Economic Activity. Is there a Spatial Employment Structure in Belgium?
De Bruyne, Karolien - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, … - 2009
This paper focuses on the importance of market access for firms location decisions. I estimate a structural parameters … location decisions, as predicted by the New Economic Geography developed by (Krugman (1991)). However, conducting an Analysis … location theories. The last contribution of the paper is the estimation of spatial employment equations at regional and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010618381