The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the manufacturing industry wage among selected developing countries based on new economic geography theory. More specifically, we use a panel data model to study the spatial structure of wages in 136 countries for the period 1998-2007. The results indicate that this theory provides a good description of the spatial structure of w...

In this paper, we solve a Ramsey model in continuous time and space, with both time and space discounting. We extract the corresponding Pontryagin conditions and prove their sufficiency. Then, we consider a finite time sub-problem and study the existence of solutions and the behaviour of these solutions when the time horizon increases. We end up by proving at the same time, the existence of a s...

(Grossman and Helpman 2004) have emphasized that the incompleteness of contracts in distant input-output linkages fosters agglomeration of downstream and upstream firms in the core region despite wage differential favoring to the periphery. Following this argument, this paper introduces uncertainty in input-output linkages in a NEG framework. We argue that uncertainty involves a coordination co...

This article introduces a social planner version of a model central to the New Economic Geography for explicitly answering whether the symmetric equilibrium outcome of the decentralized market economy is socially desirable. We find that savings incentives are too weak, resulting in an inefficiently low capital stock and therefore an inadequate number of product varieties. The optimal subsidy an...

This paper attempts to quantify disparate growth in Hamilton's Central Area. The spatial variation over time of three economic indicators was studied to do this. These indicators were property tax assessments, and multi-family and single-family property sales. The Central Area was divided into four geographic zones so that the indicator change could be associated with different parts of the Are...

Combining the theories of politics of scale from political geography, security theory from international relations, and energy security theory, and putting the scale conversion of energy contention, geographical relationship and geo-structure in geo-setting, and the three properties of safety in consideration, this paper rebuilds a geo-energy security evaluation model and uses the model to quan...

Port geographers and port economists all look basically at the way a port develops and performs. While this may seem rather trivial, the simple fact that 90% of world trade volumes are ensured by maritime transport is in itself a sufficient argument assessing the importance of ports in shaping the world economy. The core intention of port specialists is thus to explain why some ports grow while...

Transportation costs are of central importance in the New Economic Geography literature, though assumptions about transportation costs continue to be simplistic. This paper begins to address these simplifications by assuming that transportation costs for manufactured goods are heterogeneous. Basic results are consistent with standard models showing dispersion of economic activity for high trans...