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Risks and Advantages of International Relocation of Production: A Review and a Survey

Marco, Calabrò; Riccardo, Gallo - In: L'industria (2007) 3, pp. 463-486

New developments in the world economy have triggered a reorganization of production across national borders, especially in advanced countries. In order to keep their performances and respond to an increasing competition, firms have being led by the chance of cheaper labour and new markets to...

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Employment Centers and Agglomeration Economies

Niu, Yi; Ding, Chengri; Knaap, Gerrit-Jan - In: Economic Development Quarterly 29 (2015) 1, pp. 14-22

Previous research provides evidence that jobs and firms in U.S. metropolitan areas are concentrated in economic centers, creating a polycentric urban form. Previous research also suggests that firms realize localization economies when they locate near other firms in the same industry and...

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The space potential strategic policy of Russia

Kuznetsova, T.; Nikiforov, L. - In: Public administration issues (2013) 2, pp. 55-70

The article substantiates the necessity to elaborate a national prospective special strategy of socio-economic development of the country; it gives the definition of the term "space potential"; it explains the basic meaning of the acting model of space development management and shows possible...

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Is remoteness a locational disadvantage?

Behrens, Kristian; Gaigné, Carl; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2012

We study the impacts of changes in international trade and domestic transport costs on the internal geography of countries in the presence of geographical asymmetries.

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Agglomeration and directional imbalance of freight rates : the role of density economies in the transport sector

Tsubota, Kenmei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

this to models without density economies, we show that agglomeration of economic activities is more likely to emerge and … equilibrium and conclude that economies of density in transport flows can act as an agglomeration force. …

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Patterns of China's industrialization: Concentration, specialization, and clustering

Long, Cheryl; Zhang, Xiaobo - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 3, pp. 593-612

This paper presents a few stylized facts on the patterns of China's industrialization by computing a set of multi-dimensional measures on industrial concentration, regional specialization, and clustering based on census data at the firm level in 1995 and 2004. Our results show that China's rapid...

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The new economic geography: Past, present and the future

Fujita, Masahisa; Krugman, Paul - In: Economics of Governance 83 (2003) 1, pp. 139-164

This article presents a summary of our conversation on the past, present and future of the new economic geography, which took place with the help of an interlocutor in San Juan, Puerto Rico in November 2002. Following the introduction, we explain what the new economic geography is, and we...

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The Plant Size-Place Effect: Agglomeration and Monopsony in Labour Markets

Manning, Alan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

, many popular theories of agglomeration - spillovers, cost advantages and improved match quality - predict that …

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Deforestation, Growth and Agglomeration Effects: Evidence from Agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon

Igliori, Danilo - Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge - 2008

or regions, agglomeration is reflected in ‘large varieties of cities. On the other, less developed regions faces a … economics has emphasized the role of agglomeration and clustering of economic activities as fundamental causes of an enhanced … would do. However, very little has been done to examine the presence of agglomeration economies on economic performance of …

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TAX INCENTIVES: AN EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES?

Rainey, Daniel V.; McNamara, Kevin T. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 34 (2002) 02

As national and local economies become more globalized, many rural areas are going to find it more difficult to compete for private capital investments. A traditional tool, modifications to tax policy, of state and local governments will not be as effective (for many communities it has never...

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