Several recent studies have highlighted the importance of variation in industry-mix across regions or states in explaining the differential impacts of monetary shocks across those areas. However, the differences between regions in terms of the percentage of total activity accounted for by...

Recent trade and location theories (e.g., the "new economic geography") deal with regional disparities in production and income, but assume full employment and are thus ill equipped to study regional unemployment disparities. The wage curve-approach, which explicitly shows how disparities in...

We focus on the general linear-quadratic transportation costs in the linear model. Earlier results have shown that no pure-strategy price equilibrium exists for whatever firm locations in this context. Since there is no price equilibrium for the whole market, our first objective is to calculate...

The economic evaluation of transport projects relies primarily on the impact of the project on road users. Economic benefits are calculated from a reduction in the aggregate value of time saved by the users, as well as from savings on vehicle-operation and maintenance costs, reducion in traffic...

This article analyses the spatial distribution of "creativity"- the production of new knowledge. We analyse commercial patents granted in Sweden between 1994 and 2001 using a panel of 100 labour market areas that encompass the entire country. We relate patent activity to measures of localisation...

The article comprises an analysis of the adjustment of regional labour markets of former (and present) EU candidate countries to asymmetric shocks. As in EU member states, a substantial part of the adjustment to changes in employment in candidate countries is carried by participation decisions,...

We consider a two-stage non-cooperative Bertrand game with location choice involving "r" firms. There are "n" spatially separated markets located at the vertices of a network. Each firm first selects the location of a facility and then selects the delivered price in the markets in order to...

This study extends Shoesmith (2003) by generating probit model forecasts of downturns in national and state manufacturing and construction employment, using average weekly hours in manufacturing (HRS) and housing permits (HP), respectively, as explanatory variables. In each case the yield spread...

Where there are alternative roads to the same destination, competition between profit maximising road operators is possible. Tolls on such roads could perform two welfare-enhancing functions: they discourage excessive driving and allocate drivers between roads. The second of these functions...

Long and Boertlein's (1990) measure of repeat migration can be used to infer the effects of repeat migration with data sets that did not specifically ask questions about such migration. While recent work by Rogers et al. (2003) evaluated how well this synthetic measure matched empirical...