The Economic Geography of Trade, Production, and Income: A Survey of Empirics
Blackwell Publishing Ltd eBooksPublished 21 January 2008Open access
Henry G. Overman, Stephen J. Redding, Anthony J. Venables
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Abstract
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the economic geography of trade flows, factor prices, and the location of production. The discussion is structured around the empirical predictions of a canonical theoretical model.
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