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Trade and location with land as a productive factor
Pflüger, Michael (contributor);  … - 2008
into account. Our analysis furthermore implies that market-size based agglomeration forces are too weak to overcome the … a low elasticity of substitution) is very strong. This suggests that further agglomeration forces have to be invoked to … explain the agglomeration of economic activity observed in the real world. -- Trade and location ; land for production …
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Trade and Location with Land as a Productive Factor
Pflüger, Michael P.; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
into account. Our analysis furthermore implies that market-size based agglomeration forces are too weak to overcome the … a low elasticity of substitution) is very strong. This suggests that further agglomeration forces have to be invoked to … explain the agglomeration of economic activity observed in the real world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763486
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Globalisation and trade: A "New Economic Geography" perspective
Surico, Paolo - 2001
This paper presents a survey of the so-called 'New Economic Geography' (NEG) approach to International Trade, giving particular emphasis to the impact of labour mobility on the spatial distribution of economic activities across integrated countries. The liberalisation of international trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608775
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Geographical Economics : A Survey
Del Gatto, Massimo - 2005
Spatial Policy'. From this perspective, both agglomeration and economic integration have to be reinterpreted on a wider …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066531
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Footloose capital, market access, and the geography of regional state aid
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2001
The global welfare implications of home market effects in trade models with imperfect competition are little understood. This paper proposes a simple model in which such implications can be easily analyzed. It shows an overall tendency of imperfectly competitive sectors to inefficiently cluster...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295580
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Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies
Pflüger, Michael - 2003
integration. The ?new economic geography? world assumes mobile entrepreneurs which can relocate thus bringing agglomeration forces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260672
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Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies
Pflüger, Michael - 2003
historically emerged as the core. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor gives unions and governments in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262711
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Economic integration, wage policies and social policies
Pflüger, Michael - 2003 - Final version: July 8, 2003
integration. The "new economic geography" world assumes mobile entrepreneurs which can relocate thus bringing agglomeration forces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438609
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Market size and TFP in new new trade theory
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Jung, Benjamin - 2015
Recent trade theory in the Krugman (1980) tradition predicts that countries with larger market size enjoy higher levels of total factor productivity (TFP) - and equivalently of real per capita income or welfare - as a smaller fraction of spending on inputs is affected by trade costs. However, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375682
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On pitchforks and tomahawks
Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - 2007
The core-periphery model by Krugman (1991) has two 'dramatic' implications: catastrophic agglomeration and locational … and easily reversible transition from symmetry to agglomeration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268763