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The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding

Desmet, Klaus; Nagy, David Krisztián; Rossi-Hansberg, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We study the relationship between geography and growth. To do so, we first develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with different levels of migration frictions. We...

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Relaxing Hukou: Increased labor mobility and China’s Economic Geography

Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

China’s Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing … these restrictions for China’s internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First …, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on the basis of information on 264 of China’s prefecture cities …

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Internet Cluster Emergence

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Internet development holds the promise of transmitting economic value across physical space at zero marginal cost. In such a 'weightless economy', what factors matter for the location of economic activity and thus for economic development? This paper sketches a model of spatial dynamics over a...

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The Dynamics of City Formation: Finance and Governance

Henderson, J Vernon; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper examines city formation in a country whose urban population is growing steadily over time, with new cities required to accommodate this growth. In contrast to most of the literature there is immobility of housing and urban infrastructure, and investment in these assets is taken on the...

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Transport Costs, Intermediate Goods and Localized Growth

Walz, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper presents a dynamic, two-region general equilibrium model in which inter-regional production and trade patterns are endogenously determined. Localized growth stems from geographical concentration of an industrial sector exhibiting permanent productivity increases. Geographical...

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Resetting the Urban Network: 117-2012

Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Do locational fundamentals such as coastlines and rivers determine town locations, or can historical events trap towns in unfavorable locations for centuries? We examine the effects on town locations of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, which temporarily ended urbanization in Britain,...

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The Settlement of the United States, 1800 to 2000: The Long Transition towards Gibrat's Law

Desmet, Klaus; Rappaport, Jordan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper studies the long run development of U.S. counties and metro areas from 1800 to 2000. In earlier periods smaller counties converge whereas larger counties diverge. Over time, due to changes in the age composition of locations and net congestion, convergence dissipates and divergence...

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Regional Growth and Regional Decline

Breinlich, Holger; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Temple, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods and data. We survey a range of modelling traditions, and some formal approaches to the ’hard problem’ of regional economics, namely the joint consideration of agglomeration and...

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The Spatial Development of India

Desmet, Klaus; Ghani, Ejaz; O'Connell, Stephen D; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

all fast-growing developing economies. The spatial growth pattern of China looks more similar to that in the U.S. than to …

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Trade openness and spatial inequality in emerging countries

Ezcurra, Roberto; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Emerging world countries have experienced over the last two decades a significant change in their trade patterns. Bold trade reforms have been followed by rapid rises in international trade levels. However, despite these radical changes, we know remarkably little about how changes in trade...

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