EUROPEAN TRANSPORT NETWORK EFFECTS ON REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY

Economic Geography and the Fiscal Effects of Regional Integration

In models of economic geography, plant-level scale economies and trade costs create incentives for spatial agglomeration of production into a manufacturing core and agricultural periphery, creating regional income differentials. We examine tax competition between national governments to influence the location of manufacturing activity. Labour is imperfectly mobile and governments impose redistr...

Transport Investment, Geography, and Growth

A substantial part of the economic growth literature suggests that historically, geographic features such as decreasing trade costs have improved not only output but also growth. However, this literature lacks an analytical motivation for lower trade barriers, and assumes their decrease to obtain exogenously and at no cost. This paper attempts to address the issue by investigating how endogenou...

Geography of Industry and Transport

Regional economics: a new economic geography perspective

This journal has been launched in 1972 under the title Regional and Urban Economics, which is almost the name of the JEL-classification entry R. The first point we wish to make is that, by the time this journal was launched, urban economics was already a well-established field drawing on new concepts and tools. By contrast, the scientific status of regional economics was less clear in that regi...

Regional Integration Agreements: Impact, Geography and Efficiency

In this paper the gravity equation is used to analyse the impact on trade flows of different types of RIAs. Special emphasis is devoted to the test of the natural bloc hypothesis as well as the comparison of different degrees of integration. The empirical analysis has shown that RIAs have a strong impact in determining trade flows. Particularly, the effects on intra-regional trade are shown to ...