CEP Discussion Paper No 925 April 2009 The Empirics of New Economic Geography

The Empirics of New Economic Geography

Although a rich and extensive body of theoretical research on new economic geography has emerged, empirical research remains comparatively less well developed. This paper reviews the existing empirical literature on the predictions of new economic geography models for the distribution of income and production across space. The discussion highlights connections with other research in regional an...

CEP Discussion Paper No 1140 April 2012 Goods Trade , Factor Mobility and Welfare Stephen

This paper extends a recent class of quantitative models of international trade to incorporate factor mobility within countries. We present a model-based decomposition of the variance of economic activity into the contributions of locational fundamentals, market access and their covariance. We show how the standard framework for undertaking model-based counterfactuals in trade can be augmented ...

Economic growth across Chinese provinces: in search of innovation-driven gains

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CEP Discussion Paper No 1265 April 2014 Video Killed the Radio Star ? Online Music Videos and Digital Music Sales Tobias Kretschmer Christian Peukert

The empirics of economic geography: how to draw policy implications?

Using both reduced-form and structural approaches, the spectrum of policy recommendations that can be drawn from empirical economic geography is pretty large. Reduced-form approaches allow the researchers to consider many variables that impact on regional disparities, as long as they are careful about interpretation and endogeneity issues. Structural approaches have the opposite advantages. Les...