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Footloose Capital, Market Access, and the Geography of Regional State Aid

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  • Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano

    (Università Bocconi, GIIS and CEPR)

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The global welfare implications of home market effects in trade models with imperfect competition are little understood. This paper proposes a simple model in which such implications can be easily analyzed. It shows an overall tendency of imperfectly competitive sectors to inefficiently cluster in locations that offer market access advantages. The more so the stronger the market power of firms as well as the intensity of increasing returns to scale and the lower the trade costs. As such features are likely to di¤er widely across sectors, those results provide theoretical ground to the promotion of regional policies that are also sector-specific and not only region-specific as currently in the EU.

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  • Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, 2001. "Footloose Capital, Market Access, and the Geography of Regional State Aid," Development Working Papers 155, Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano.
    • Handle: RePEc:csl:devewp:155
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    1. Gianmarco Ottaviano, 2003. "Regional Policy in the Global Economy: Insights from New Economic Geography," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(6-7), pages 665-673.
    2. Krieger-Boden, Christiane, 2002. "European integration and the case for compensatory regional policy," ERSA conference papers ersa02p240, European Regional Science Association.

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    JEL classification:

    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
    • R13 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - General Equilibrium and Welfare Economic Analysis of Regional Economies

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