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Martin, Philippe; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper presents a model in which growth and geographic agglomeration of economic activities are mutually self … reinforcing processes. Industrial agglomeration in one location spurs growth because it reduces the cost of innovation in that … location through a pecuniary externality due to transaction costs. Growth fosters agglomeration because as the sector at the …

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The Rise and Fall of Regional Inequalities

Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

the agglomeration of increasing returns activities. When workers migrate towards locations with more firms and higher real … wages, this intensifies agglomeration. When workers do not move across regions, further reductions in transport costs make …

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Agglomeration and Growth: Cross-Country Evidence

Brülhart, Marius; Sbergami, Federica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

cross-section OLS and dynamic panel GMM estimation. Agglomeration is measured alternatively through measures of urbanization … sets and variable definitions, we find evidence that supports the "Williamson hypothesis": agglomeration boosts GDP growth …

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Inter-regional and International Trade: Seventy Years After Ohlin

Behrens, Kristian; Gaigné, Carl; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We study the impact of falling trade costs and falling national transport costs on the economic geography of countries involved in an integration process. Two regions between which labour is mobile form each country, but there is no international factor mobility. Commodities can be traded both...

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Agglomeration under Forward-Looking Expectations: Potentials and Global Stability

Oyama, Daisuke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

is sufficiently small. In particular, when trade barriers are low enough, full agglomeration in the country with the …

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Agglomeration Effects and the Competition for Firms

Boadway, Robin; Cuff, Katherine; Marceau, Nicolas - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003

mobile firms. Firms create jobs where they locate, but there is frictional unemployment. Two sorts of agglomeration effects …

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Evaluating Urban Transport Improvements: Cost Benefit Analysis in the Presence of Agglomeration and Income Taxation

Venables, Anthony J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

There is a substantial empirical literature quantifying the positive relationship between city size and productivity. The paper draws out the implications of this productivity relationship for evaluations of urban transport improvements. A theoretical model is developed and used to derive a...

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Buzz: Face-to-Face Contact and the Urban Economy

Storper, Michael; Venables, Anthony J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

This paper argues that existing models of urban concentrations are incomplete unless grounded in the most fundamental aspect of proximity; face-to-face contact. Face-to-face contact has four main features; it is an efficient communication technology; it can help solve incentive problems; it can...

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Cities, Matching and the Productivity Gains of Agglomeration

Andersson, Fredrik; Burgess, Simon; Lane, Julia - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

The striking geographical concentration of economic activities suggests that there are substantial benefits toagglomeration. However, the nature of those benefits remains unclear. In this paper we take advantage of a newdataset to quantify the role of one of the main contenders - the matching of...

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Externalities, Nonconvexity, and Agglomeration.

Papageorgiou, Y.; Pines, D. - Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas … - 1999

In this paper we argue that the impact of external scale economies and diseconomies on city size is not nearly as clear-cut as it is tacitly believed in urban economics. Similarly, that city-size distortions are not caused by externalities alone. Noncovexity, which prevents establishing the...

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