Industrial location and public infrastructure

Martin, Philippe; Rogers, Carol Ann

doi:10.1016/0022-1996(95)01376-6

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“…Here we consider dummy variables indicating regions with a university founded before 1500 AD and regions that adopted printing technology before 1500 AD. As Cantoni and Yuchtman 28 Holl (2004) and Martin and Rogers (1995) establish empirical and theoretical evidence on the importance infrastructure facilities for industry location. This justifies the inclusion of distance to road, airports and railroads as control variables.…”

Section: Controlling For Determinants Of Agglomeration and Developmentmentioning

confidence: 94%

Does medieval trade still matter? Historical trade centers, agglomeration and contemporary economic development

Wahl

2016

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis study empirically establishes a link between medieval trade, agglomeration and contemporary regional development in ten European countries. It documents a statistically and economically significant positive relationship between prominent involvement in medieval trade and commercial activities and regional economic development today. Further empirical analyses show that medieval trade positively influenced city development both during the medieval period and in the long run; they also reveal a robust connection between medieval city growth and contemporary regional agglomeration and industry concentration. A mediation analysis indicates that a long-lasting effect of medieval trade on contemporary regional development is indeed transmitted via its effect on agglomeration and industry concentration. This research thus highlights the long-run importance of medieval trade in shaping the development of cities as well as the contemporary spatial distribution of economic activity throughout Europe. The path-dependent regional development processes caused by medieval commercial activities help explain the observed persistent regional development differences across the European countries considered.

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Section: Controlling For Determinants Of Agglomeration and Developmentmentioning

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Does medieval trade still matter? Historical trade centers, agglomeration and contemporary economic development

Wahl

2016

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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“…In particular, we are able to shed light on the question how the market equilibrium's propensity to agglomerate is affected by commuting or the mobility of physical capital. Third, and related to the previous point, our analysis builds a bridge between two well-known models widely used in the new economic geography: the analytically tractable agglomeration model with mobile skilled labour of Forslid and Ottaviano (2003) and the model with mobile physical capital developed by Martin and Rogers (1995). 5 The Forslid-Ottaviano model assumes that skilled labour is mobile but workers must live where they work; the Martin-Rogers model, while allowing for physical capital mobility, differs from ours by assuming that capital owners are mobile.…”

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A simple theory of industry location and residence choice

Borck

Pflüger

Wrede

2009

Journal of Economic Geography

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit company supported by Deutsche Post World Net. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks, research support, and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. This paper provides a simple theory of geographical mobility which simultaneously explains people's choice of residences in space and the location of industry. Residences are chosen on the basis of the utility which mobile households obtain across locations. The spatial pattern of industry is determined by the location decision of a scarce essential factor of production which seeks to obtain the highest possible economic return. Our theory comprehends applications to commuting and physical capital mobility. Referring to the decline in mobility costs, we are able to explain that long-distance commuting and foreign direct investment have increased and that industrial activity has become more concentrated both within as well as across countries.JEL Classification: F12, F21, F22, R12, R23

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“…2 They demonstrate that all of these models are isomorphic with the standard CP and VL models in equilibrium features without losing all the key properties. In particular, the FCVL model proposed by Robert-Nicoud (2005) is the most tractable and simplest in a family of VL models, in which the VL model is married with the footloose capital (FC) model of Martin and Rogers (1995). The FCVL model never degenerates from the CP and VL models: It features backward and forward linkages, and the market crowding effect with circular causality and follows the same equilibrium path.…”

Section: Core-periphery Vertical Linkages and New Economic Geographymentioning

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“…To build intuition, we start from the standard FCVL model of Robert-Nicoud (2005), which is the marriage of the footloose capital (FC) model of Martin and Rogers (1995) with the Vertical Linkage (VL) model. The FCVL model works with the same setup as the simplest FC model, i.e.…”

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Trade liberalisation and agglomeration with firm heterogeneity: Forward and backward linkages

Okubo

2009

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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This paper studies the impact of trade costs reduction on geographical concentration in the presence of firm heterogeneity and overhead type of export fixed costs. Firm heterogeneity with the export fixed costs hampers full agglomeration through weakening the forward and backward linkages and fortifying the market crowding effect. Rather than catastrophic agglomeration that the standard new economic geography models have long suggested, trade liberalisation causes gradual agglomeration. Also, trade liberalisation never produces a perfect convergence in welfare for the periphery, which loses, and the core, which gains. Even free trade never equalises the welfare between core and periphery, i.e. trade liberalisation does not eliminate inequality among nations.JEL H32, P16.

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Industrial location and public infrastructure

Cited by 498 publications

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Does medieval trade still matter? Historical trade centers, agglomeration and contemporary economic development

Does medieval trade still matter? Historical trade centers, agglomeration and contemporary economic development

A simple theory of industry location and residence choice

Trade liberalisation and agglomeration with firm heterogeneity: Forward and backward linkages

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