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The aim of this paper is to study the location decisions of upstream and downstream industries when transport costs in each sector are analysed separately. By using a new economic geography model built on Venables (1996), it will be shown that the effects of cost reductions in transporting final...
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This paper explores how the interaction between firm heterogeneity, urban costs and transport costs determines spatial configuration across regions within a simple general-equilibrium model. We spot light on how firm heterogeneity affects the centrifugal and centripetal forces and reshapes the...
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Transportkosten auf ein System von Städten, die gleichmäßig auf einer Geraden angeordnet sind. Für den Fall steigender Transportkosten … peripheren Städte Einwohner verlieren. -- Transportkosten ; Agglomeration ; Städtesysteme …
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This paper develops a two-country model of intraindustry trade with trade costs, which can be reduced by public investment in an international infrastructure capital, the stock of which accumulates over time. Depending on the trade costs and international distribution of manufacturing firms,...
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of 80 countries show how the relevance of the key NEG variable, market access, depends upon the trade costs specification …
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This paper provides an analysis of outsourcing and trade in a spatial model a la Hotelling. In this setting, we discuss the trade-off between transport-cost-related disadvantages and outsourcing-induced production cost advantages of a large economy. The model gives a rich picture of possible...
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emerging as market equilibrium is "bubble-shaped", i.e. it features dispersion of firms both at high and low trade costs and … trade costs. Our central finding is that the market equilibrium is characterised by over-agglomeration for high trade costs … intermediate range of trade costs, the market equilibrium yields the socially optimal degree of agglomeration. An important …
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We consider an economic geography setting in which firms are free to choose one of the following organizational types: (i) integrated firms, which perform all their activities at the same location, (ii) horizontal firms, which operate several plants producing the same good at different...
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We build a model of tacit collusion between firms that operate in multiple markets to study the effects of trade costs. A key feature of the model is that cartel discipline is endogenous. Thus, markets that appear segmented are strategically linked via the incentive compatibility constraint....
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market effect (HME) in literature. While the wages in the large region are always higher, the HME in industrial distribution …
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