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Why central London has seen the biggest rises in house prices, despite COVID Paul Cheshire, Christian Hilber and Olivier Schöni March 2021
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Tags: covid-19; economic geography; housing market; housing; houses; prices

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Understanding Educational Progression at the Local Level: Portsmouth, The Northern City on the South Coast Jo Blanden, Hector Espinoza, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura March 2021
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Tags: economic geography; schools; education; equality; policy

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Lockdown and the social life of big cities Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth and Tobias Seidel
March 2021
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CentrePiece 26 (1) Spring 2021

Tags: covid-19; geography; economic geography; cities; employment;

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Will coronavirus cause a big city exodus? Max Nathan and Henry Overman
March 2021
Paper No' CEPCP601:
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CentrePiece 26 (1) Spring 2021

Tags: covid-19; economic geography; housing markets; innovation; labour

An earlier version of this article was published by the Economics Observatory

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Trade protection along supply chains: how antidumping measures against China hurt downstream industries Chad Bown, Paola Conconi, Aksel Erbahar and Lorenzo Trimarchi February 2021
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Tags: economic geography; supply chains; usa; china; policy; tax; production; employment; wages; investment; sales; trade

CEP discussion paper
Quantifying the externalities of renewable energy plants using wellbeing data: The case of biogas Christian Krekel, Julia Rechlitz, Johannes Rode and Alexander Zerrahn December 2020
Paper No' CEPDP1738:
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JEL Classification: C23; Q42; Q51; R20

Tags: renewables; biogas; externalities; social acceptance; wellbeing; spatial analysis; economic geography

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Lockdown shows us it is not work that attracts us to big cities - but the social life Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth and Tobias Seidel December 2020
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Tags: covid-19; geography; economic geography; cities; employment;

CEP discussion paper
Quality of life in a dynamic spatial model Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth and Tobias Seidel
December 2020
Paper No' CEPDP1736:
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JEL Classification: J2; J3; R2; R3; R5

Tags: covid-19; dynamic; housing; migration; rents; pollution; productivity; spatial equilibrium; quality of life; wages; welfare; economic geography; productivity; wages; wellbeing

CEP discussion paper
Are bigger banks better? Firm-level evidence from Germany Kilian Huber
December 2020
Paper No' CEPDP1735:
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JEL Classification: E24; E44; G21; G28

Tags: bank regulation; big banks; bank size; economic growth; brexit; economic geography; employment; globalisation; productivity; technological change

CEP discussion paper
All aboard: the effects of port development César Ducruet, Réka Juhász, Dávid Krisztián Nagy and Claudia Steinwender
December 2020
Paper No' CEPDP1734:
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JEL Classification: R40; O33; F6

Tags: port development; containerization; quantitative economic geography

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The impact of public employment: evidence from West Germany's post-war capital Bonn Sascha O. Becker, Stephan Heblich and Daniel M. Sturm November 2020
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Tags: economic geography; public employment; private sector; west germany; bonn; spillovers; synthetic control

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Transport infrastructure expenditure: while there is no strong evidence of significant regional differences, the data available is problematic Henry G. Overman October 2020
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Tags: economic geography; inequality; infrastructure

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The use of designer reputation to build tall in London Paul Cheshire
October 2020
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Tags: economic geography; urban

CEP discussion paper
Prime locations Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Thilo N. H. Albers and Kristian Behrens
October 2020
Paper No' CEPDP1725:
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JEL Classification: R38; R52; R58

Tags: prime services; internal city structure; agent-based model; multiple equilibria and path dependence; transport networks; cities; economic geography

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Will coronavirus cause a big city exodus? Matthew Clancy, Diane Coyle, Jonathan Dingel, Elena Magrini, Philip McCann, Max Nathan, Henry Overman and Helen Simpson September 2020
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Tags: covid-19; urban; economic geography; productivity

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Benefits, costs, and 'levelling up' Henry G. Overman
September 2020
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Tags: economic geography; infrastructure;

CEP discussion paper
Trade and geography Stephen J. Redding
September 2020
Paper No' CEPDP1718:
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JEL Classification: F1; J4; R1; R4

Tags: trade; geography; local labor markets

Journal article
Devolving skills: the case of the apprenticeship grant for employers Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Henry Overman
August 2020
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Tags: economic geography; apprenticeships; devolution; employment

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The effects of supporting local business: evidence from the UK Elias Einiö and Henry Overman
July 2020
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Tags: uk economy; employment; inequality; economic geography

CEP discussion paper
Gravity in international finance: evidence from fees on equity transactions Luke Milsom, Vladimír Pažitka, Isabelle Roland and Dariusz Wójcik July 2020
Paper No' CEPDP1703:
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JEL Classification: F14; F23;;F65; G15; G24

Tags: gravity; international trade; international finance; equity securities underwriting; multinational business networks; financial geography

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Place-based policies and spatial disparities across European cities Maximilian v. Ehrlich and Henry Overman
June 2020
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Tags: economic geography; human capital; skills; occupational choice; labor productivity; wage level and structure; regional labor markets; population; neighborhood characteristics

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The making of the modern metropolis: evidence from London Stephan Heblich, Stephen J. Redding and Daniel M. Sturm
May 2020
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JEL Classification: O18; R12; R40

Tags: economic geography; transportation; housing; infrastructure; agglomeration; urbanization

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The role of demand in land re-development Felipe Carozzi
May 2020
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Tags: economic geography; brownfields; land re-development; land supply

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Housing: 'no shortage' - is it nonsense? Paul Cheshire
December 2019
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Tags: economic geography; housing; policy

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Geography, competition, and optimal multilateral trade policy Antonella Nocco, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Matteo Salto
September 2019
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JEL Classification: D4;D6;F1;L0;L1

Tags: international trade policy; monopolistic competition; firm heterogeneity; pricing to market; multilateralism; productivity; globalisation; economic geography

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Are all trade agreements equal? The role of distance in shaping the effect of economic integration agreements on trade flows Rebecca Freeman and Samuel Pienknagura May 2019
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Tags: economic distance; geography; gravity; integration agreements; trade agreements;

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Does additional spending help urban schools? An evaluation using boundary discontinuities Stephen Gibbons, Sandra McNally and Martina Viarengo October 2018
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Tags: school funding; economic geography; pupil attainment

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Market Potential and Global Growth over the Long Twentieth Century David S. Jacks and Dennis Novy
September 2018
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Tags: economic geography; market potential; structural gravity; trade costs;

CEP discussion paper
The making of the modern metropolis: evidence from London Stephan Heblich, Stephen J. Redding and Daniel M. Sturm
September 2018
Paper No' CEPDP1573:
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JEL Classification: O18; R12; R40

Tags: agglomeration; urbanization; transportation; economic geography

CEP discussion paper
Market potential and global growth over the long twentieth century David S. Jacks and Dennis Novy
July 2018
Paper No' CEPDP1560:
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JEL Classification: F1; N7

Tags: economic geography; market potential; structural gravity; trade costs

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
The Impact of Public Employment: Evidence from Bonn Sascha O. Becker, Stephan Heblich and Daniel M. Sturm
January 2018
Paper No' SERCDP0228:
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JEL Classification: F15; J45; N44; R12

Tags: economic geography; public employment; place-based policies; german division

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Where industry is strong and where it’s weak – key facts of UK business geography Sandra Bernick, Richard Davies and Anna Valero October 2017
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Tags: brexit; british and irish politics and policy; cep; economy and society; featured; british business; british economy; business; firms; geography; industry

CentrePiece article
The roles of nature and history in world development Vernon Henderson, Tim Squires, Adam Storeygard and David Weil
March 2017
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CentrePiece 22 (1) Spring 2017

JEL Classification: O13; O18; R12

Tags: agriculture; physical geography; development

This article summarises ‘The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History and the Role of Trade’ by Vernon Henderson, Tim Squires, Adam Storeygard and David Weil, SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper No. 198, May 2016.

CEP discussion paper
Quantitative spatial economics Stephen J. Redding and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
October 2016
Paper No' CEPDP1452:
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JEL Classification: F10; F14; R12; R23; R41

Tags: agglomeration; cities; economic geography; quantitative models; spatial economics

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History and the Role of Trade J. Vernon Henderson, Tim Squires, Adam Storeygard and David Weil May 2016
Paper No' SERCDP0198:
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JEL Classification: O13; O18; R12

Tags: agriculture; physical geography; development

This paper has been published as:
'The Global Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History, and the Role of Trade', J Vernon Henderson, Tim Squires, Adam Storeygard and David Weil, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 133, Issue 1, February 2018

CEP discussion paper
Estimating border effects: the impact of spatial aggregation Cletus C. Coughlin and Dennis Novy
May 2016
Paper No' CEPDP1429:
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JEL Classification: F10; F15; R12

Tags: gravity; geography; borders; trade costs; heterogeneity; home bias; spatial attenuation; modifiable areal unit problem (maup)

Journal article
The economics of density: evidence from the Berlin Wall Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Stephen J. Redding, Daniel M. Sturm and Nikolaus Wolf November 2015
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Tags: economic geography

CentrePiece article
Can cities be trapped in bad locations? Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch
February 2014
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CentrePiece 18 (3) Winter 2014

JEL Classification: R11; N93; O18

Tags: economic geography; economic history; path dependence; transportation

This article summarises ‘Resetting the Urban Network: 117-2012’ by Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch, CEP Discussion Paper No. 1248, November 2013.

CEP discussion paper
Resetting the Urban Network: 117-2012 Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch
November 2013
Paper No' CEPDP1248:
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JEL Classification: R11; N93; O18

Tags: economic geography; economic history; path dependence; transportation

This paper has been published as:
'Resetting the Urban Network: 117-2012*', Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch, The Economic Journal, Volume 128, Issue 608, February 2018

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Urbanity Gabriel M. Ahfeldt
May 2013
Paper No' SERCDP0136:
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JEL Classification: R20; R30

Tags: amenities; consumer city; hedonic analysis; photography geography; property prices

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Do Large Departments Make Academics More Productive? Agglomeration and Peer Effects in Research Clément Bosquet and Pierre-Philippe Combes April 2013
Paper No' SERCDP0133:
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JEL Classification: R12; J24; I3

Tags: productivity determinants; economic geography; networks; economics of science; selection and endogeneity

CEP discussion paper
The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Stephen J. Redding, Daniel M. Sturm and Nikolaus Wolf June 2012
Paper No' CEPDP1154:
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JEL Classification: N34; O18; R12

Tags: agglomeration; dispersion; density; cities; economic geography

This paper has been published as:
'The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall', Econometrica, Volume 83, Issue 6, November 2015

CEP discussion paper
Agglomeration, Trade and Selection Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano
February 2012
Paper No' CEPDP1129:
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JEL Classification: F12; R11; R12

Tags: agglomeration; trade; heterogeneity; selection; economic geography

CEP discussion paper
A Many-Country Model of Industrialization Holger Breinlich and Alejandro Cuñat
September 2011
Paper No' CEPDP1082:
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JEL Classification: F11; F12; F14; O14

Tags: industrialization; economic geography; international trade

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
The Effects of Agglomeration on Wages: Evidence from the Micro-Level Bernard Fingleton and Simonetta Longhi
June 2011
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JEL Classification: C21; C31; C33; D1; O18; R20; R12

Tags: urban economics; new economic geography; household panel data

CEP discussion paper
Spreading the Word: Geography, Policy and Knowledge Spillovers Sharon Belenzon and Mark Schankerman
September 2010
Paper No' CEPDP1005:
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JEL Classification: K41; L24; O31; O34

Tags: knowledge spillovers; diffusion; geography; university technology transfer; patents; scientific publications

This paper has been published as:
'Spreading the Word: Geography, Policy, and Knowledge Spillovers', Sharon Belenzon and Mark Schankerman,The Review of Economics and Statistics Volume 93, Issue 3,July 2013

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Economic Geographers and the Limelight: The Reaction to the 2009 World Development Report Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
April 2010
Paper No' SERCDP0048:
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JEL Classification: R0; R19

Tags: economic geography

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Self-Reinforcing Shocks: Evidence from a Resettlement Policy Aki Kangasharju and Matti Sarvimäki
April 2010
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JEL Classification: F12; J10; R12; N94

Tags: economic geography; agglomeration; migration

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Regional Manufacturing Wages: Dancing to the Tune of Trade Shocks Filipe Lage de Sousa
April 2010
Paper No' SERCDP0046:
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JEL Classification: F12; F14; R12

Tags: economic geography; trade shocks; manufacturing wages

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Predicting the Geography of House Prices Bernard Fingleton
February 2010
Paper No' SERCDP0045:
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JEL Classification: C21; C31; O18; R12; R31

Tags: new economic geography; real estate prices; spatial econometrics; panel data; prediction

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Analysing the Impact of Public Capital Stock Using the NEG Wage Equation: A Panel Data Approach Bernard Fingleton and Miguel Gómez-Antonio June 2009
Paper No' SERCDP0024:
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JEL Classification: H54; R11; R15; C21

Tags: spatial economics; public infrastructure; productivity; panel data; economic geography

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Simulating Wages and House Prices Using the NEG Bernard Fingleton
April 2009
Paper No' SERCDP0021:
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JEL Classification: C21; C31; O18; R12; R31

Tags: new economic geography; real estate prices; spatial econometrics

CEP discussion paper
The Empirics of New Economic Geography Stephen Redding
April 2009
Paper No' CEPDP0925:
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JEL Classification: F12; F14; O10

Tags: new economic geography; market access; industrial location; multiple equilibria

CEP discussion paper
Economic Geography: A Review of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature Stephen Redding
January 2009
Paper No' CEPDP0904:
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JEL Classification: F12; F14; O10

Tags: new economic geography; market access; home market effect; multiple equilibria

CEP discussion paper
Why Capital does not Migrate to the South: A New Economic Geography Perspective Jang Ping Thia
November 2008
Paper No' CEPDP0895:
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JEL Classification: F12; F15

Tags: firm heterogeneity; capital mobility; economic geography

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Prediction Using Panel Data Regression with Spatial Random Effects Bernard Fingleton
September 2008
Paper No' SERCDP0007:
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JEL Classification: C33; O10; F02

Tags: panel data; spatially correlated error components; economic geography; spatial econometrics

CEP discussion paper
History and Industry Location: Evidence from German Airports Stephen Redding, Daniel M. Sturm and Nikolaus Wolf
July 2007
Paper No' CEPDP0809:
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JEL Classification: F14; F15; N74

Tags: industry location; economic geography; german division; german reunification

CEP discussion paper
Economic Linkages Across Space Henry Overman, Patricia Rice and Anthony J. Venables
June 2007
Paper No' CEPDP0805:
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JEL Classification: R00; R58

Tags: spatial linkages; urban systems; new economic geography; urban and regional policy

CEP discussion paper
Firms in International Trade Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen, Stephen Redding and Peter K. Schott
May 2007
Paper No' CEPDP0795:
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JEL Classification: F12; F14; O10

Tags: economic geography; international trade

CEP discussion paper
Shifts in Economic Geography and their Causes Anthony J. Venables
December 2006
Paper No' CEPDP0767:
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JEL Classification: F1; R1

Tags: economic geography; urbanisation; world economy; productivity

Journal article
Causes of sprawl: a portrait from space Marcy Burchfield, Henry G. Overman, Diego Puga and Matthew A. Turner
May 2006
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Tags: economic geography; urban development; metropolitan growth; transport infrastructure

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Testing for localization using micro-geographic data Gilles Duranton and Henry G. Overman
October 2005
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Tags: economic geography

CEP discussion paper
Agglomeration and the Adjustment of the Spatial Economy Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton and Henry Overman
May 2005
Paper No' CEPDP0689:
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JEL Classification: R00; R58

Tags: urban systems; new economic geography; urban and regional policy; diagrammatic exposition

CEP discussion paper
The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification Stephen Redding and Daniel M. Sturm
May 2005
Paper No' CEPDP0688:
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JEL Classification: F15; N94; O18

Tags: market access; economic geography; german division; german reunification

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Economic geography and international inequality Stephen J. Redding and Anthony J. Venables
January 2004
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JEL Classification: F12; F14; O10

Tags: economic geography; economic development; international trade; inequality; globalisation; wages

CEP discussion paper
The Geography of UK International Trade Henry Overman and L. Alan Winters
January 2004
Paper No' CEPDP0606:
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JEL Classification: F15; F14; R12

Tags: uk trade; eec; economic geography

CEP discussion paper
Trade Shocks and Industrial Location: the Impact of EEC Accession on the UK Henry Overman and L. Alan Winters
November 2003
Paper No' CEPDP0588:
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JEL Classification: F15; F14; R12

Tags: uk manufacturing industry; eec; economic geography

CEP discussion paper
Can We Learn Anything from Economic Geography Proper? Henry Overman
October 2003
Paper No' CEPDP0586:
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JEL Classification: B41; B52; F12; R00

Tags: economic geography; geographical economics; regional science; relational economic geography

CEP discussion paper
Distance, Skill Deepening and Development: Will Peripheral Countries Ever Get Rich? Stephen Redding and Peter K. Schott
June 2003
Paper No' CEPDP0572:
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JEL Classification: F12;F14;O10

Tags: economic geography; human capital; international inequality; international trade

CEP discussion paper
Explaining Cross-Country Export Performance: International Linkages and Internal Geography Stephen Redding and Anthony J. Venables September 2002
Paper No' CEPDP0549:
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JEL Classification: F12;F14;O10

Tags: economic development; economic geography; international trade

CEP discussion paper
Factor Price Equalization in the UK? Andrew B. Bernard, Stephen Redding, Peter K. Schott and Helen Simpson
September 2002
Paper No' CEPDP0547:
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JEL Classification: F14;C14

Tags: elative factor prices; diversification cones; technology; economic geography

CEP discussion paper
Globalization in History: A Geographical Perspective Nicholas Crafts and Anthony J. Venables
March 2002
Paper No' CEPDP0524:
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JEL Classification: F1;N1;N7

Tags: globalization; economic geography; economic history

CEP discussion paper
Economic Geography and International Inequality Stephen Redding and Anthony J. Venables
May 2001
Paper No' CEPDP0495:
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JEL Classification: F12; F14; O10

Tags: economic development; economic geography; international trade

CEP discussion paper
Spatial Evolution of the US Urban System Y Ioannides and Henry Overman
November 2000
Paper No' CEPDP0482:
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Tags: urban growth; spatial evolution; economic geography

CEP discussion paper
Internet Cluster Emergence Danny Quah
February 2000
Paper No' CEPDP0441:
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Tags: distribution dynamics; economic geography; internet; location; space; time; toepitz; weightless economy

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