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Cross-Border Commuting and Consuming : An Empirical Investigation

Mathä, Thomas Y. - 2014

Germany and working in Luxembourg. In total, it is estimated that these households spend €925 million per annum in Luxembourg …

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Concentration and Specialisation Trends in Germany Since Reunification

Suedekum, Jens - 2004

In this paper we describe the development of regional specialisation and geographical concentration in Germany between … 1993 and 2001. Somewhat contrary to theoretical expectations derived from the recent literature in location theory, we …. By and large and with some exceptions, this conclusion holds both for West Germany and Germany as a whole, as well as for …

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Cross-Border Commuting and Consuming : An Empirical Investigation

Mathä, Thomas Y.; Porpiglia, Alessandro; Ziegelmeyer, … - 2021

Germany and working in Luxembourg. In total, it is estimated that these households spend € 925 million per annum in Luxembourg …

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Home Market Effect versus Multinationals

Toulemonde, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number and the location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases when trade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production into a single country, which is likely to be...

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Firms Location under Demand Heterogeneity

Picard, Pierre M.; Okubo, Toshihiro - Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée (CREA), … - 2011

In this paper we build an economic geography model where firms sell product varieties with heterogenous demands. We show that firms selling the products with higher demands select to set up their plants in larger countries. Larger countries do not only get better access to more varieties but...

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Borders, market access and urban growth; the case of Saxon towns and the Zollverein

Ploeckl, Florian - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010

The Zollverein, the 1834 customs union between independent German states, removed all internal borders. This paper investigates its economic impact focussing on urban population growth in the state of Saxony. Implications from a economic geography model are tested with a data set on town...

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Trade and Spatial Growth: the Nexus that was not missing

Abeyratne, Sirimal; Cooray, Nawalage S. - Graduate School of International Relations, … - 2014

push spatial growth away from trade theory. It is the rapid change in the shape of the world economy led by trade … international economics. Spatial growth within trade analyses was, however, not bizarre to trade theory. Bertil Ohlin as well as his … teacher, Eli Heckscher ? the coauthors of the Heckscher-Ohlin theory of comparative advantage ? did not miss the point that …

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A welfare analysis of the principle of mutual recognition

Toulemonde, Eric - In: European Economic Review 60 (2013) C, pp. 1-16

Countries set norms to protect consumers against ill-functioning products. In the absence of coordination, countries can set different norms and still achieve the same level of consumer protection. Such differences in specifications create barriers to trade because exporting firms incur...

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Regional Wage Disparities in Europe: What role for Market Access?

López-Rodríguez, López-Rodríguez , Jesús; Faíña, … - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2007) 11, pp. 5-23

This paper uses a New Economic Geography model to test for wagedisparities in the European Union. We derive and estimate an econometric specificationrelating wages to a distance weighted sum of regional GDP’s. The empirical estimationsof the model were carried out for a sample of 160 NUTS2...

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Spatial discounting, Fourier, and racetrack economy: A recipe for the analysis of spatial agglomeration models

Akamatsu, Takashi; Takayama, Yuki; Ikeda, Kiyohiro - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 36 (2012) 11, pp. 1729-1759

We provide an analytical approach that facilitates understanding the bifurcation mechanism of a wide class of economic models involving spatial agglomeration of economic activities. The proposed method overcomes the limitations of the Turing (1952) approach that has been used to analyze the...

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