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Heterogeneous Firms, Agglomeration and Economic Geography: Spatial Selection and Sorting / Richard Baldwin, Toshihiro Okubo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baldwin, Richard.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w11650.
- NBER working paper series no. w11650
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Heterogeneous Firms, Agglomeration and Economic Geography
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2005.
- Summary:
- A Melitz-style model of monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms is integrated into a simple New Economic Geography model to show that the standard assumption of identical firms is neither necessary nor innocuous. We show that re-locating to the big region is most attractive for the most productive firms; this implies interesting results for empirical work and policy analysis. A 'selection effect' means standard empirical measures overestimate agglomeration economies. A 'sorting effect' means that a regional policy induces the highest productivity firms to move to the core while the lowest productivity firms to move to the periphery. We also show that heterogeneity dampens the home market effect.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2005.
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