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European integration and domestic regions: A numerical simulation analysis

Melchior, Arne - 2009

Does European economic integration create more inequality between domestic regions, or is the opposite true? We show that a general answer to this question does not exist, and that the outcome depends on the liberalisation scenario. In order to examine the impact of European and international...

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Integration effects in border regions: A survey of economic theory and empirical studies

Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Stiller, Silvia - 2002

explores whether economic theory and empirical studies support the assessment that integration effects concentrate in border … regions. Economic theory alone allows only very vague conclusions about the spatial effects of integration. Depending on … Grenzregionen spezifische ökonomische Integrationseffekte bedingt. Dieser Überblick fasst die Ergebnisse der ökonomischen Theorie …

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Lumpy countries, urbanization, and trade

Brakman, Steven; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2011

Lumpiness of production factors within a country might overturn the predictions for the structure of trade by the factor-abundance (HO) model. Trade patterns, as predicted by this model, can both be magnified or reversed by uneven concentration of production factors within a country. Cities are...

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Trade and Location with Horizontal and Vertical Multi-Region Firms

Ekholm, Karolina; Forslid, Rikard - 1998

This paper analyses the effect on agglomeration tendencies of allowing firms to become multi-region firms in a standard model of trade and location. More specifically, we introduce horizontal and vertical multi-region firms into the core-periphery (CP) model developed by Krugman (1991). The...

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Agglomeration processes in ageing societies

Grafeneder-Weissteiner, Theresa; Prettner, Klaus - 2010

This article investigates agglomeration processes in ageing societies by introducing an overlapping generation structure into a New Economic Geography model. Whether higher economic integration leads to spatial concentration of economic activity crucially hinges on the economies' demographic...

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Geography and comparative advantage

Ricci, Luca Antonio - 1996

This paper investigates the relation between agglomeration of economic activity and the pattern of specialization of countries. We develop a model encompassing a Ricardian comparative advantage, increasing returns to scale, product differentiation, monopolistic competition, trade costs, and...

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Infrastructure's long-lived impact on urban development : theory and empirics

Grimes, Arthur L.; Apatov, Eyal; Lutchmann, Larissa; … - 2014

We analyse the impacts that infrastructure provision has on long run urban development. The topic is of major importance to policy-makers when deciding whether or not to invest in major infrastructure projects. The analysis helps policy-makers to understand the intended, and potentially...

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Rush hours and urbanization

Seidel, Tobias; Wickerath, Jan - 2019

We use a spatial general equilibrium model with potential commuting of workers between their place of work and their place of residence to analyze the effects of rush hours on the spatial allocation of employment and population, average labor productivity and the housing market. Abolishing...

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The TERM model and its data base

Horridge, Mark - 2011

TERM (The Enormous Regional Model) provides a strategy for creating a "bottom-up" multiregional CGE model which treats each region of a single country as a separate economy. This makes it a useful tool for examining the regional impacts of shocks that may be region-specific. TERM is designed to...

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On Quantitative Spatial Economic Models

Behrens, Kristian - 2018

Quantitative spatial economics (QSE) specifies various components such as preferences, production technology, and frictions for the movement of goods, people, and ideas. Despite the long literature on endogenous location decisions, the question of how these specifications affect resulting...

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