Regional geography and Ivan Gams

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 ...

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...

Lagrangian Relaxation with Gams

This document describes an implementation of Lagrangian Relaxation using GAMS.

Can Regional Policies Affect Growth and Geography in Europe?*

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...