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Putting New Economic Geography to the Test : Free-Ness of Trade and Agglomeration in the EU Regions

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2021

degree of agglomeration. Our main findings suggest that agglomeration forces still have only a limited spatial reach in the … EU. Agglomeration forces appear to be rather localized. At the same time, confronting our empirical results with the …

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Geographic concentrations and increasing returns : a survey of evidence

Surico, Paolo - 2002

Economic activities are highly clustered. Why is geographic concentration becoming a predominant feature of modern economies? On the basis of the empirical models developed by the 'new' theories of international trade, our answer is that increasing returns are the driving force of economic...

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The Effect of Capital Flow on the Agglomeration Evolution of Footloose Entrepreneurs

Chen, Ching-mu; Peng, Shin-Kun - 2011

stabilizing role in the catastrophic agglomeration caused by footloose entrepreneurs …

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Geographic Concentrations and Increasing Returns : A Survey of Evidence

Surico, Paolo - 2002

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Geographic Concentration and Increasing Returns : A Survey of Evidence

Surico, Paolo - 2003

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Optimal agglomeration and regional policy

Suedekum, Jens; Pflueger, Michael - 2004

This paper studies the social desirability of agglomeration and the efficiency arguments for regional policy in a … equilibria with partial agglomeration of firms in addition to core periphery equilibria for intermediate levels of trade costs …. Our central finding is that the market equilibrium is characterised by over-agglomeration for high trade costs and under-agglomeration …

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Regional integration and economic development: An empirical approach

Dion, David-Pascal - 2004

This paper contributes to the empirical literature by providing a quantitative measurement of the influence of regional trade integration on productivity. For this purpose we address the link between trade and productivity thanks to knowledge spillovers in a multi-country model. The...

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Regional integration and economic development: A theoretical approach

Dion, David-Pascal - 2004

We use a model of combined endogenous growth and economic geography to study the impact of regional economic integration on the member and non-member countries of a regional union. Regional integration affects growth through interregional technology diffusion symbolized by knowledge spillovers...

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Trade, growth and geography: A synthetic

Dion, David-Pascal - 2004

Economic integration affects economic development through two main channels: growth and localization of the economic activities. The theories of endogenous growth and economic geography enable us to understand these mechanisms. We study in this paper their similarities and specificities before...

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Can we use NEG models to predict migration flows? An example of CEE accession countries

Kancs, d’Artis - 2005

In this paper we develop an analytically solvable and structurally estimable economic geography model and apply it to predict migration flows for the period following the CEE’s integration with the EU. The main innovation of our approach is that it endogenises both explanatory variables and...

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