Geography, Transportation, and Endogenous Trade Costs

Taxation, Infrastructure, and Endogenous Trade Costs in New Economic Geography

This paper presents a New Economic Geography model with distortionary taxation and endogenized trade costs. Tax revenues finance a public good, infrastructure. We show that the introduction of costly public investment in infrastructure increases agglomerative tendencies. With respect to the regions’ sizes, in the periphery, the price-index for manufacturing goods decreases, whereas for the core...

Technology, Geography, and Trade

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Beyond Trade Costs: Firms’ Endogenous Access to International Markets

In this paper we argue that the level of access to international markets by firms is related not only to exogenous factors such as trade costs, but also with endogenous factors such as strategic competition on R&D. In particular, we show that: (1) higher efficiency of R&D (like low trade costs) makes trade more easy for firms (given that R&D increases the profitability of exports); (2) firms wi...

Trade and Transportation: Containerization

The container, a standard size metal box designed to be moved with common handling equipment into which cargo is packed for shipment aboard in specifically configured oceangoing vessels, has evolved into the key physical and logistical support of international trade and globalization. Although available in several sizes, all containers adhere to a single standard, which accelerated containeriza...

Trade and Geography – Economies of Scale, Differentiated Products and Transport Costs