Invest Locally or Globally? A Normative Analysis of Transport Policies in a Footloose Capital Model with Interregional Intraregional Transportation Costs

In this paper, we introduce a distinction between interregional and intraregional transportation costs, in a footloose capital model. This allows assessing more precisely the effects of different types of transport policies, on the spatial distribution of activities. From a normative point of view, we find that, in absence of regulation, the concentration of firms is too high in the center. We show what set of transport policies improves the equilibrium

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Chiambaretto, Paul
Other Persons:	de Palma, Andre (contributor) ; Proost, Stef (contributor)
Publisher:	[2011]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Transportkosten \| Transport costs \| Neue ökonomische Geographie \| New economic geography \| Regionale Wirtschaftsintegration \| Regional economic integration \| Afrika \| Africa \| Theorie \| Theory

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (31 p)
Series:	Center for Economic Studies Discussions Papers Series 11.14
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments June 2011 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.1866112 [DOI]
Classification:	R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, and Changes ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; R13 - General Equilibrium and Welfare Economic Analysis of Regional Economics ; R42 - Government and Private Investment Analysis ; R48 - Government Pricing; Regulatory Policies ; R58 - Regional Development Policy
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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