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Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North America and elsewhere as well. However, these efforts--collectively known as the "new economic geography"--have devoted little attention to the policy implications of the new theory. Economic Geography and Public Policy fills the gap by illustrating many new policy insights economic geography models can offer to the realm of theoretical policy analysis. Focusin
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Logic of the Book's Structure; 1.2 Readers' Guide; 1.3 Empirical Evidence; References; Part I: Preliminaries; Chapter 2: The Core-Periphery Model; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Symmetric CP Model; 2.3 Key Features; 2.4 Concluding Remarks and Related Literature; Appendix 2.A: Everything You Wanted to Know about Dixit-Stiglitz but were Afraid to Ask; Appendix 2.B: Technicalities; Appendix 2.C: Exogenous Asymmetries; References; Chapter 3: The Footloose Capital Model; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Symmetric FC Model
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3.3 Key FeaturesAppendix 3.A: FC Model with Exogenous Asymmetries; References; Chapter 4: The Footloose Entrepreneur Model; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Symmetric FE Model; 4.3 Key Features; 4.4 Concluding Remarks and Related Literature; Appendix 4.A: Technicalities and Exogenous Asymmetries; References; Chapter 5: Linear Models; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Linear FC Model; 5.3 The Linear FE Model; 5.4 Congestion in the Linear FE Model; 5.5 Concluding Remarks and Related Literature; References; Chapter 6: The Constructed Capital Model; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Symmetric CC Model
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6.3 The CC Model with Capital Mobility6.4 Key Features; 6.5 Concluding Remarks and Related Literature; References; Chapter 7: Global and Local Spillovers Models; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 The Symmetric GS Model; 7.3 The Symmetric LS Model; 7.4 Concluding Remarks and Related Literature; References; Chapter 8: Vertical Linkages Models; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 The CPVL Model; 8.3 The FCVL Model; 8.4 The FEVL Model; 8.5 Key Features of VL Models; 8.6 Concluding Remarks and Related Literature; Appendix 8.A: Formal Stability Tests in Vertical-Linkage Models; Part II: General Policy and Welfare Issues
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Chapter 9: Policy and Economic Geography: What's New?9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Threshold Effects, Discontinuities and Hysteresis; 9.3 General Non-Linear Effects; 9.4 Interaction Terms: Trade Freeness Also Matters; 9.5 Selection Effects; 9.6 Coordination Effects; 9.7 Concluding Remarks and Related Literature; Appendix 9.A. Heterogeneous Moving Costs Among the Agents; References; Chapter 10: A Typology of Welfare Effects: Regional Perspective; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Organizing Framework; 10.3 Dixit-Stiglitz Preferences; 10.4 Allowing for Variable Factor Supplies
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10.5 Allowing for Endogenous GrowthReferences; Chapter 11: Efficiency, Equity and Optimal Agglomeration; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Equity and Efficiency in the Footloose Capital Model; 11.3 Symmetric Footloose Entrepreneur Model; 11.4 Conclusion; References; Part III: Trade Policy; Chapter 12: Unilateral Trade Policy; 12.1 Introduction; 12.2 Price-Lowering Protection (PLP); 12.3 Liberalization and Industrialization; 12.4 Industrial Development, Market Size and Comparative Advantage; 12.6 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 13: Reciprocal Trade Agreements; 13.1 Introduction; 13.2 The Model
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13.3 Symmetric Liberalization and Delocation
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Economic Geography and Public Policy
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