Paul Krugman: Trade and Geography - Economies of Scale, Differentiated Products and Transport Costs

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Abstract: Scientific Background, The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2008. Over the centuries, international trade and the location of economic activity have been at the forefront of economic thought. Even today, free trade, globalization, and urbanization remain as commonplace topics in the popular debate as well as in scholarly analyses. Traditionally, trade theory and economic geography evolved as separate subfields of economics. More recently, however, they have converged become more and more united through new theoretical insights, which emphasize that the same basic forces simultaneously determine specialization across countries for a given international distribution of factors of production (trade theory) and the long-run location of those factors across countries (economic geography).

Keywords: Trade; Geography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2008-10-13
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