Okubo, Toshihiro; Picard, Pierre M. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics … - 2008
tastes for a set of manufacturing varieties. We discuss afootloose capital model and a footloose entrepreneur model. We show … that firms selling thegoods with higher values select the region hosting the largest number of consumers. Largercountries … thus get better access to the higher quality products. We also show that the effectof spatial selection on firms' spatial …