This chapter examines empirical strategies that have been or could be used to evaluate the
importance of agglomeration and trade models. This theoretical approach, widely known as …

The “new economic geography” is a recent body of literature that seeks to explain how
resources and production come to be concentrated spatially for reasons other than the …

Economic Geography is the most complete, up-to-date textbook available on the important
new field of spatial economics. This book fills a gap by providing advanced undergraduate …

This book is the revised version of Economics of Agglomeration co-authored by Jacques-
Francois Thisse and Masahisa Fujita and published in 2002. Spatial economics is one of the …

Recently, the 'new economic geography'literature has developed as a theory of the
emergence of large agglomerations which relies on increasing returns to scale and …

The authors show how a common approach that emphasizes the three-way interaction
among increasing returns, transportation costs, and the movement of productive factors can …

This paper examines the microfoundations of agglomeration economies for US
manufacturing industries. Using industries as observations, we regress the Ellison–Glaeser …

The purpose of this article is twofold. First, we present an alternative model of agglomeration
and trade that displays the main features of the recent economic geography literature while …

This paper develops a model of a spatial economy in which interregional trade patterns and
the structure of the transport network are determined endogenously as a result of the …

This paper reviews recent research on geography and trade. One of the key empirical
findings over the last decade has been the role of geography in shaping the distributional …