Location, Location, Location: Entrepreneurial Finance Meets Economic Geography

New Economic Geography Meets Comecon: Regional Wages and Industry Location in Central Europe∗

We analyze the internal spatial wage and employment structures of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia, using regional data for 1996-2000. A new economic geography model predicts wage gradients and specialization patterns that are smoothly related to regions’ relative market access. As an alternative, we formulate a “Comecon hypothesis”, according to which wages and sector...

Economic geography of Indonesia: location, connectivity, and resources

Economic Geography, Industry Location and Trade: The Evidence

General-equilibrium models based on increasing returns, product differentiation and monopolistic competition have attained a prominent position in trade theory and, more recently, in economic geography. This paper surveys empirical studies on issues raised by the new wave of theoretical thinking. There is a growing literature documenting spatial distributions of industries at country and region...

Location, location, location...

Intra-abdominal fat is an established risk factor for the metabolic syndrome. In this issue of Cell Metabolism, Tran et al. (2008) test the cell-autonomous and location-related properties of transplanted intra-abdominal and subcutaneous fat depots. While subcutaneous fat seems to confer metabolic benefits, species differences in adipose biology justify caution in interpreting the results.

Location, location, location

Although high levels of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) generally correlate with good prognosis in high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSC) patients, little is known about the phenotype or specificity of these cells. We have recently demonstrated that TIL expressing the intra-epithelial lymphocyte marker CD103 (official name, integrin αE, ITGAE) abundantly infiltrate HGSCs, strongly correl...