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The Turn-around in the Production Pattern and Internal Geography by the Foreign Innovation
Okubo, Toshihiro - Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University - 2000
the main framework is based on the two good--two country--three region Ricardian Model, including migration. We manifest that, even if the technology is improved in the foreign country at a moderate level so as not to exceed the technology in one advanced region in the home country and so as to...
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Firms’ location Under taste and demand heterogeneity
Okubo, Toshihiro; Picard, Pierre M. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008
heterogeneity smooths the agglomeration patterns but that it should be considered neither as a dispersion force nor as an … agglomeration force. Indeed, the introduction of taste heterogeneity makes an initially dispersed economy less dispersed and an …
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Productivity distribution, firm heterogeneity, and agglomeration: Evidence from firm-level data
Okubo, Toshihiro; Tomiura, Eiichi - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2011
suggest that agglomeration economies are likely to accommodate heterogeneous firms that co-exist in the same region. …
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Firms' locations under demand heterogeneity
Picard, Pierre M.; Okubo, Toshihiro - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 6, pp. 961-974
asymmetric dispersion of workers rather than their symmetric dispersion or complete agglomeration in a specific region. …
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Spatial Relocation with Heterogeneous Firms and Heterogeneous Sectors
Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2010
The present paper focuses on sorting as a mechanism behind the well-established fact that there is a central region productivity premium. Using a model of heterogeneous firms that can move between regions, Baldwin and Okubo (2006) show how more productive firms sort themselves to the large core...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693104
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On the Development Strategy of Countries of Intermediate size - An Analysis of Heterogenous Fims in a Multiregion Framework
Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2010
This paper compares two policies: trade cost reduction and firm relocation cost reduction using a three-country version of a heterogeneous-firms economic geography model, where the three countries have different market (population) size. We show how the effects of the two policies differ, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764492
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Spatial Relocation with Heterogeneous Firms and Heterogeneous Sectors
Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The present paper focuses on sorting as a mechanism behind the well-established fact that there is a central region productivity premium. Using a model of heterogeneous firms that can move between regions, Baldwin and Okubo (2006) show how more productive firms sort themselves to the large core...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784724
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On the development strategy of countries of intermediate size - An analysis of heterogenous firms in a multiregion framework
Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper compares two policies: trade cost reduction and firm relocation cost reduction using a three-country version of a heterogeneous-firms economic geography model, where the three countries have different market (population) size. We show how the effects of the two policies differ, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784755
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Spatial sorting with heterogeneous firms and heterogeneous sectors
Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 46 (2014) C, pp. 42-56
The present paper focuses on spatial sorting as a mechanism behind the well-established fact that there is a central region productivity premium. Using a model of heterogeneous firms that can move between regions, Baldwin and Okubo (2006) show how more productive firms sort themselves to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785296
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On the development strategy of countries of intermediate size—An analysis of heterogeneous firms in a multi-region framework
Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 4, pp. 747-756
This paper compares two policies: trade cost reduction and firm relocation cost reduction using a three-country version of a heterogeneous-firms geography and trade model, where the three countries have different market (population) sizes. We show how the effects of the two policies differ, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048651