have also made an increasing share of services tradeable. We propose a tractable micro-founded Ricardo-Marshall model to … for the location of economic activity. Our model highlights a tension between nontradeable producer services which exert … an agglomerative force and trade costs and comparative advantage in final goods and services which act as dispersion …

Using firm-level data from France, we document that the shift of economic activity from manufacturing to services over … density. This bias can be accounted for by the location choices of large services firms that sort into big cities and large … strengthened for services but weakened for manufacturing. This divergence is a key driver of the urban bias but it dampens …

Using firm-level data from France, we document that the shift of economic activity from manufacturing to services over … density. This bias can be accounted for by the location choices of large services firms that sort into big cities and large … strengthened for services but weakened for manufacturing. This divergence is a key driver of the urban bias but it dampens …

This study investigates whether services sectors' agglomeration can be explained within a common New Economic Geography … intermediate goods received for the services sector, a fact that has been shown in Empirics for the European Union (Krenz (2010 …)). The results show different strengths of agglomeration for both the industrial and services sector depending on initial …

Geography in explaining industrial and services sectors' agglomeration in the European Union. Therefore, new dynamic panel data …' intensity and therewith New Economic Geography's assumptions are important in explaining both industrial and services sectors … within. For services sectors' agglomeration results show that intermediate goods intensity matters only for within and not …

Geography in explaining industrial and services sectors' agglomeration in the European Union. Therefore, new dynamic panel data …' intensity and therewith New Economic Geography's assumptions are important in explaining both industrial and services sectors … within. For services sectors' agglomeration results show that intermediate goods intensity matters only for within and not …