“...Economic activities are not concentrated on the head of a pin, nor are they spread evenly over a featureless plane. On the contrary, they are distributed very...”

“...Many trade models of monopolistic competition identify cost efficiency as the main determinant of firm performance in export markets. To date, the analysis of...”

“...The purpose of this article is twofold. First, we present an alternative model of agglomeration and trade that displays the main features of the recent...”

“...We provide a bare–bones framework that uncovers the circumstances which lead either to the emergence of equally-spaced and equally-sized central places or to a...”

“...Large and productive metropolitan areas play a growing role in the working of developed and emerging economies alike. This paper surveys the recent...”

“...We consider an economic geography model of a new genre: All firms and workers are mobile and their agglomeration within a city generates costs through...”

“...Although transport costs are a key-ingredient of New Economic Geography, the transport sector is usually abstracted away from the analysis. Put differently,...”

“...We study how administrative boundaries and tax competition among asymmetric jurisdictions interact with the labor and land markets to determine the economic...”

“...We study the impacts of changes in international trade and domestic transport costs on the internal geography of countries in the presence of geographical...”

“...We show that heterogeneous firms choose different locations in response to market integration. Specifically, decreasing trade costs lead to the gradual...”