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Henkel, Marcel; Seidel, Tobias; Suedekum, Jens - 2018

general equilibrium model with multiple asymmetric regions, costly trade and labor mobility to carve out the aggregate … implications of this policy. Calibrating the model for Germany, we find that it indeed delivers smaller spatial economic …

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Shedding Light on the Spatial Diffusion of Disasters

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; Sanders, Mark - 2018

Climate research suggests that global warming will lead to more frequent and more extreme natural disasters. Most disasters are local events with effects on local economic activity. Hence, assessing their economic impacts with the help of econometric country-level analysis may lead to biased...

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Shedding Light on the Spatial Diffusion of Disasters

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Gröschl, Jasmin; Sanders, Mark; … - 2018

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Acquisition of skills, education subsidies, and agglomeration of firms

Toulemonde, Eric - 2003

location being determined by the level of education subsidies. For low transport costs, firms agglomerate in one region. We …

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Agglomeration and Tax Competition

Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael - 2004

Tax competition for a mobile factor is different in 'new economic geography settings' compared to standard tax competition models. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor in the core region can be taxed. Moreover, a tax differential between the core and the periphery can be...

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A Simple, Analytically Solvable Chamberlinian Agglomeration Model

Pflüger, Michael - 2001

This paper presents a simple, analytically solvable Chamberlinian agglomeration model. As in the canonical core-periphery (CP) model, two agglomerative forces are at work. However, the present model exhibits a 'pitchfork bifurcation' rather than the 'tomahawk bifurcation' of the CP model.

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Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies

Pflüger, Michael - 2003

This paper uses a two country trade and geography model of monopolistic competition to study the effects of wage … policies and social policies on the location of industry. It is first shown that a union wage push in one of two otherwise … identical countries induces a relocation of firms which increases with the level of economic integration as measured by trade …

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Inefficient lock-in and subsidy competition

Borck, Rainald; Koh, Hyun-Ju; Pflüger, Michael - 2009

regions in a new trade model, where capital can freely move among regions, but capital rewards are repatriated. We study …

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Borders, Market Size and Urban Growth, The Case of Saxon Towns and the Zollverein in the 19th Century

Ploeckl, Florian - 2008

Changes in trade institutions, such as the abolishment of tariff barriers, have a potentially strong impact on economic …

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Globalization, integration and regional specialization

Krieger-Boden, Christiane - 2000

Globalization and European integration are substantially changing the interregional division of labor in Europe and the industrial specialization of European regions, thereby potentially affecting the extent of disparities between countries and regions. This paper reviews several theoretical...

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