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On the disentanglement of an economic union [comunicação oral]

We study how the unilateral withdrawal of a region from an economic union affects the spatial distribution of economic activity and social welfare. We explore the three-region quasi-linear log utility footloose entrepreneur model under the assumption that this dissent can be expressed as a higher transportation cost between the leaving party and the remaining union members. We find that a spatial distribution i...

Economic geography meets Hotelling: the home-sweet-home effect

We introduce heterogeneous preferences for location in 2-region core-periphery models, thereby generating an additional dispersive force: the home-sweet-home effect. Different forms of heterogeneity in preferences for location induce different long-run spatial distributions of economic activity, depending on the short-run equilibrium model and the distribution of preferences for location that are considered. Ou...

Measuring inequality of opportunity across EU-SILC countries: national and urba...

Inequality in individuals’ outcomes resulting from unequal access to opportunities due to differences in individual circumstances, such as family background and/or race, are generally considered to be unfair and ethically unacceptable. Since wealthier individuals and their families tend to live in more affluent areas and mingle with similar more affluent peers, the territorial distribution of inequality of oppo...

New economic geography: economic integration and spatial imbalances

Exploring the relation between income mobility and inequality at the regional l...

This paper investigates empirically the impact of labour-related income inequality on income mobility in French and Spanish NUTS2 regions. We explore whether the negative relation between income inequality and mobility -known as the Great Gatsby Curve -is also present in the short and medium run. Using longitudinal microdata from the EU-SILC, we construct NUTS2-level measures of relative income mobility from tr...

Global bifurcation mechanism and local stability of identical and equidistant r...

We provide an analytical description of possible spatial patterns in economic geography models with three identical and equidistant regions by adapting results from General Bifurcation mechanism. We then use Pflüger's (2004, Reg Sci Urb Econ) model to show analytically how such spatial patterns can be uncovered. As the freeness of trade increases, a uniform distribution undergoes a direct bifurcation that leads...

Paul Krugman: contributions to Geography and Trade

This work consists of a survey of the academic work of Paul Robin Krugman. It seeks to shed light on his main contributions to economic theory, mainly those for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008. His legacy in academia can be assessed through the recognition of his work on the identification of international trade patterns and the explanation on why spatial imbalances in the distribution...

Measuring inequality of opportunity across EU-SILC countries : national and urb...

Inequality in individuals’ outcomes resulting from unequal access to opportunities due to differences in individual circumstances, such as family background and/or race, are generally considered to be unfair and ethically unacceptable. Since wealthier individuals and their families tend to live in more affluent areas and mingle with similar more affluent peers, the territorial distribution of inequality of oppo...

Exploring the relation between income mobility and inequality at the regional l...

This paper investigates empirically the impact of labour-related income inequality on income mobility in French and Spanish NUTS2 regions. We explore whether the negative relation between income inequality and mobility - known as the Great Gatsby Curve - is also present in the short and medium run. Using longitudinal microdata from the EU-SILC, we construct NUTS2-level measures of relative income mobility from ...

The footloose entrepreneur model with a finite number of equidistant regions

We study the Footloose Entrepreneur model with a finite number of equidistant regions, focusing on the analysis of stability of agglomeration, total dispersion, and boundary dispersion. As the number of regions increases, there is more tendency for agglomeration and less tendency for dispersion. As it tends to infinity, agglomeration always becomes stable while dispersion always becomes unstable. These results ...