July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1082 pages
39h 18m
English
Content preview from Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics
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Chapter 59
The Empirics of Agglomeration and Trade
Keith Head keith.head@ubc.ca Faculty of Commerce, University of British Columbia, 2053 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T1Z2.
Thierry Mayer a1tmayer@univ-paris1.fr aUniversité de Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne (TEAM), Paris, France.
JEL classification: F12, R12
Abstract
This chapter examines empirical strategies that have been or could be used to evaluate the importance of agglomeration and trade models. This theoretical approach, widely known as “New Economic Geography” (NEG), emphasizes the interaction between transport costs and firm-level scale economies as a source of agglomeration. NEG focuses on forward and backward trade linkages as causes of observed spatial concentration of ...