Agglomeration economies explain why productivity increases as the size of agglomeration increases, and thereby partly explain the importance of location and space in economic development. Agglomeration economies are based on the distance between firms, labour and the market. Infrastructure...

Mobility reduction and modal shift towards public transport, walking and cycling were important aims of the Dutch spatial policy from the nineties (VINEX). This policy encompassed several criteria for new housing developments, to limit the mobility these generate. This paper reports on a study...

Travel Behaviour is a challenging and original volume, adding to the growing literature focusing on understanding transportation systems. The book capitalises on actual scientific and applied developments in Europe, the importance of EC policies and the resultant trend in studying differences...

This paper addresses consequences of increased labour migration in Europe due to productivity effects in a core-periphery model. Traditional trade and growth models predict an overall beneficial impact of the accession of the current candidate states to the European Union. However, models...

Using a newly assembled, consistent and disaggregated dataset (12 goods and 7 services) on internal and bilateral trade for 25 European countries, we analyse the difference between trade in goods and services. The measurement of both trade in goods and trade in services is improved over earlier...

A térbeli számszerűsített általános egyensúlyi modellek az új gazdaságföldrajz empirikus alkalmazásainak eszközei. Szemléleti-módszertani gyökereiket tehát az új gazdaságföldrajzi és a számszerűsített általános egyensúlyi modellekben találjuk meg. Tanulmányunkban a...

The present paper proposes an improved estimation strategy for estimating inter-regional trade flows. Our estimation strategy is based on the parameter-free approach of Simini et al. (2012), which allows us to avoid concemptual inconsistencies, from which many previous estimation approaches...

RHOMOLO is a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model aimed at investigating the impact of policy instruments developed according to the objectives of Cohesion Policy. In doing so, this model attempts to cover a broader set of economic variables mostly related to an economic geography setting...