The unequal distribution of economic activities, transposed in economic, social and territorial disparities is the general characteristic of the European economy. Gaps increased in the context of European Union (EU) enlargement towards Eastern and Central Europe and of the economic crisis, thus...

traditionally seen only in terms of trade costs, many aspects of economic integration are more naturally viewed as lowering the cost of trading information rather than goods, i.e. as reducing the extent to which learning externalities are localised. Raising learning spillovers is stabilising, so...

We present a model where long-run growth and industrial location are jointly endogenous by introducing Romerian product innovation growth into Krugman's core-periphery model. We focus on stability, showing that growth is a powerful centripetal force, but that knowledge spillovers are a powerful...