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Cities in Space : Three Simple Models
Krugman, Paul R. - 2021
Urban agglomerations arise at least in part out of the interaction between economies of scale in production and market size effects. This paper develops a simple spatial framework to develop illustrative models of the determinants of urban location, of the number and size of cities, and of the...
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The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity : Nature, History, and the Role of Trade
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2016
productivity and the other decreasing transportation costs, and in which agglomeration economies lead to persistence in urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994896
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Agglomeration and Endogenous Capital
Baldwin, Richard E. - 2021
complex since they feature demand-linked and cost-linked agglomeration forces. I present a simpler model where agglomeration … many analytic results (rare in economic geography). Trade-cost levels that trigger catastrophic agglomeration are … identified analytically, liberalization between almost equal-sized nations is shown to entail near-catastrophic' agglomeration …
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On the Geography of Global Value Chains
Antras, Pol - 2017
This paper develops a multi-stage general-equilibrium model of global value chains (GVCs) and studies the specialization of countries within GVCs in a world with barriers to international trade. With costly trade, the optimal location of production of a given stage in a GVC is not only a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955438
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Institutions Don'T Rule : Direct Effects of Geography on Per Capita Income
Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 2021
In a series of papers, my colleagues and I have demonstrated that levels of per capita income, economic growth, and other economic and demographic dimensions are strongly correlated with geographical and ecological variables such as climate zone, disease ecology, and distance from the coast....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224667
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Geography and Economic Development
Gallup, John Luke; Sachs, Jeffrey D.; Mellinger, Andrew D. - 2021
This paper addresses the complex relationship between geography and macroeconomic growth. We investigate the ways in which geography may matter directly for growth, controlling for economic policies and institutions, as well as the effects of geography on policy choices and institutions. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238940
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Cities, Productivity, and Trade
Garcia, Alvaro; Potlogea, Andrei; Voigtländer, Nico; … - 2022
international trade and economic geography. We build a model with agglomeration economies where firms with heterogeneous … locate in larger cities and profit from agglomeration effects; (ii) conversely, while opening up to trade has complex overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242716
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Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing Industries : A Dartboard Approach
Ellison, Glenn; Glaeser, Edward L. - 2021
This paper discusses the prevalence of Silicon Valley-style localizations of individual manufacturing industries in the United States. Several models in which firms choose locations by throwing darts at a map are used to test whether the degree of localization is greater than would be expected...
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