Krugman's Papers in Regional Science: The 100 dollar bill on the sidewalk is gone and the 2008 Nobel Prize well‐deserved

Behrens, Kristian; Robert‐Nicoud, Frédéric

doi:10.1111/j.1435-5957.2009.00241.x

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“…This is essentially a call for multi-region NEG models that are far more flexible than the Krugman (1991a) model or its more recent theoretical equivalents discussed in the previous subsection (Behrens & Thisse, 2007, p. 463). Such a way forward for NEG is also in line with suggestions made by prominent NEG researchers like Fujita & Krugman (2004, p. 158), Krugman (1998a, p. 15), Behrens & Robert-Nicoud (2009, pp. 17Á18), or Fujita & Mori (2005 and it is useful to quote the latter paper at some length because it adequately sums up what is at stake:…”

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“…For one thing, there is the misguided temptation to apply theoretical insights that apply only to a hypothetical two-region setting (like the derivation and positioning of the break point B and sustain point S in the Tomahawk of Figure 1) to a real world setting of many regions: 'it is far from being clear that we can extrapolate the predictions and results derived from two-region models to a multi-regional system. Quite the opposite: the answer is probably no, although this is not really recognized by the profession' (Behrens & Thisse, 2007, p. 461; see also Behrens & Robert-Nicoud, 2009). 10 For example, if one applies an NEG model to the EU regions, the depiction of geographical space inevitably has to take account of the fact that it cannot be adequately represented in terms of just (iceberg) transport costs, and is more complex than the simple straight line or 'race-track' geometries used in NEG theory to represent geography.…”

Section: The Need To Reconsider Geography and History Within Negmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Rethinking (New) Economic Geography Models: Taking Geography and History More Seriously

Garretsen¹,

Martin

2010

Spatial Economic Analysis

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Two aspects of New Economic Geography models are often singled out for criticism, especially by geographers: the treatment of geography, typically as a pre-given, fixed and highly idealized abstract geometric space; and the treatment of history, typically as 'logical' time (the movement to equilibrium in a model's solution space) rather than real history. In this paper we examine the basis for these criticisms, and explore how far and in what ways NEG models might be made more credible with respect to their representation of geography and history, and particularly whether and to what extent the work of geographers themselves provides some insights in this regard. We argue that the conceptualization of space and time is in fact a challenge for both NEG theorists and economic geographers, and that, notwithstanding their ontological and epistemological differences, both groups would benefit from an interchange of ideas on this front.Réinventer les (nouveaux) modèles de géographie économique: comment prendre la géographie et l'histoire plus au sérieux RÉSUMÉ Deux aspects particuliers des mode`les de la nouvelle ge´ographie e´conomique sont souvent l'objet de critiques, notamment de la part des ge´ographes, a`savoir: le traitement de la ge´ographie, ge´ne´ralement comme un espace ge´ome´trique abstrait pre´de´termine´, fixe et extrêmement ide´alise´, et le traitement de l'histoire, ge´ne´ralement comme un cre´neau 'logique' (un mouvement vers l'e´quilibre dans un espace a`solution du modèle) et non pas comme l'histoire re´elle. Dans la pre´sente communication, nous nous penchons sur le fondement de ces critiques, et nous examinons dans quelle mesure les modèles de la NEG pourraient devenir plus plausibles sur le plan de la façon dont ils repre´sentent la ge´ographie et l'histoire, notamment si le travail des ge´ographes apporte de nouveaux e´le´ments sur cette question, et dans quelle mesure. Nous soutenons que la conceptualisation de l'espace et du temps constitue, en fait, un de´fi tant pour les the´oriciens de la NEG que pour les ge´ographes e´conomiques, et qu'au-delà de leurs diffe´rences ontologiques et e´piste´mologiques, un e´change d'ide´es sur ce sujet serait be´ne´fique pour ces deux groupes. Spatial Economic Analysis, Vol. 5, No. 2, June 2010Reconsideració n de modelos de (Nueva) Geografía Econó mica: Tomando más en serio la geografía y la historia EXTRACTO A menudo, existen dos aspectos particulares de los modelos de Nueva Geografía Econo´mica que reciben críticas, especialmente por parte de los geo´grafos: el tratamiento de la geografía, típicamente como un espacio geome´trico abstracto altamente idealizado, fijo y predeterminado; y, el tratamiento de la historia, típicamente como un tiempo 'lo´gico' (el movimiento hacia el equilibrio en el espacio de solucio´n de un modelo), en lugar de como historia real. En este estudio examinamos la base de estas críticas y exploramos hasta que´punto y de que´formas, los modelos NEG podrían hacerse ma´s creíbles con respecto a su representacio´n de la geogr...

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Section: What's Next? Two Options Within Negsupporting

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Section: The Need To Reconsider Geography and History Within Negmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking (New) Economic Geography Models: Taking Geography and History More Seriously

Garretsen¹,

Martin

2010

Spatial Economic Analysis

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“…The last two decades have seen economists become increasingly interested in geographical issues (Martin, 1999; Behrens and Robert‐Nicoud, 2009). This has been variously attributed to theoretical developments, a growing interest in cities or simply the greater availability of geo‐referenced data.…”

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Mostly Pointless Spatial Econometrics?*

Gibbons

Overman

2012

Journal of Regional Science

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ABSTRACT. We argue that identification problems bedevil applied spatial economic research. Spatial econometrics usually solves these problems by deriving estimators assuming that functional forms are known and by using model comparison techniques to let the data choose between competing specifications. We argue that in many situations of interest this achieves, at best, only very weak identification. Worse, in many cases, such an approach will be uninformative about the causal economic processes at work, rendering much applied spatial econometric research "pointless," unless the main aim is description of the data. We advocate an alternative approach based on the "experimentalist paradigm" which puts issues of identification and causality at center stage.

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“…It is, indeed, not that rare for total state contributions to exceed 30% of company investment. 1 Concerns about the magnitude of incentive packages, voiced by the public and…”

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Bidding for Horizontal Multinationals

Behrens

Picard

2008

Journal of the European Economic Association

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We present a model in which governments bid for firms by taxing/subsidizing setup costs. Firms choose both the number and the location of the plants they operate, and the equilibrium industry structure is affected by governments' subsidy choices. We show that the endogenous presence of horizontal multinationals attenuates the race to the bottom and yields some results that run counter to traditional findings in the literature. First, in the presence of multinationals, increasing subsidies decrease firms' profits by exacerbating price competition due to more firms going multinational. Second, instead of being always subsidized, firms may actually be taxed in equilibrium. Last, subsidies may become strategically independent policy instruments, instead of being strategic complements. (JEL: F12, F23, H27, H73, R12) E-mail: Picard: pierre.picard@uni.lu; Behrens: behrens.kristian@uquam.ca 1. See Charlton (2003) for a detailed overview of many cases of international and interregional subsidy competition between governments.

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Krugman's Papers in Regional Science: The 100 dollar bill on the sidewalk is gone and the 2008 Nobel Prize well‐deserved

Cited by 29 publications

References 227 publications

Rethinking (New) Economic Geography Models: Taking Geography and History More Seriously

Rethinking (New) Economic Geography Models: Taking Geography and History More Seriously

Mostly Pointless Spatial Econometrics?*

Bidding for Horizontal Multinationals

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