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The Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in the European Union

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Pierre-Philippe Combes
Henry Overman

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AbstractThis paper considers the spatial distribution of economic activities in the European Union. It has three mainaims. (i) To describe the data that is available in the EU and give some idea of the rich spatial data sets that arefast becoming available at the national level. (ii) To present descriptive evidence on the location of aggregateactivity and particular industries and to consider how these location patterns are changing over time. (iii) Toconsider the nature of the agglomeration and dispersion forces that determine these patterns and to contrast themto forces acting elsewhere, in particular the US. Our survey suggests that much has been achieved in the wave ofempirical work that has occurred in the past decade, but that much work remains to be done.

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Keywords: Location; European Union; descriptive statistics; empirical studies;

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F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Country and Industry Studies of Trade
F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
R12 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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