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I like this book very much. It provides a wonderful overview of what can be accomplished with the tools of economic geography in various fields of economics. De novo analysis is presented through several new models and results that extend the field in many directions. The style of presentation strikes a very good balance between intuition and rigor, and the various chapters obey the same organization, making the work very accessible. -- Jacques Thisse, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Universite catholique de Louvain This book presents and analyses a wider range of new economic

Table of Contents

*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*CHAPTER 1 Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER 2. The Core-Periphery Model, pg. 9*CHAPTER 3. The Footloose Capital Model, pg. 68*CHAPTER 4. The Footloose Entrepreneur Model, pg. 91*CHAPTER 5. Linear Models, pg. 110*CHAPTER 6. The Constructed Capital Model, pg. 137*CHAPTER 7. Global and Local Spillovers Models, pg. 155*CHAPTER 8. Vertical Linkages Models, pg. 190*CHAPTER 9. Policy and Economic Geography: What's New?, pg. 227*CHAPTER 10. A Typology of Welfare Effects: Regional Perspective, pg. 243*CHAPTER 11. Efficiency, Equity and Optimal Agglomeration, pg. 252*CHAPTER 12. Unilateral Trade Policy, pg. 277*CHAPTER 13. Reciprocal Trade Agreements, pg. 317*CHAPTER 14. Preferential Trade Agreements, pg. 330*CHAPTER 15. Agglomeration with Taxation and Public Goods, pg. 365*CHAPTER 16. Tax Competition and Agglomeration, pg. 391*CHAPTER 17. Infrastructure Policies and Economic Geography, pg. 425*CHAPTER 18. Political Economics of Regional Subsidies, pg. 448*CHAPTER 19. Concluding Remarks and Directions for Future Research, pg. 472*INDEX, pg. 481

About the Author

Richard Baldwin is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International Economics in Geneva. Rikard Forslid is Associate Professor of Economics at Stockholm University. Philippe Martin is Professor of Economics at the University of Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne. Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano is Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna, Italy. Frederic Robert-Nicoud is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Geneva.

Reviews

"Even more impressive than the speed with which this monograph was created, is the breadth of issues that is covered and the wealth of results that is derived and synthesized. For anyone thinking about trade, tax, and regional policies, it is required reading."--Michael Pfluger, Journal of Economic Geography "The impressive efforts by Baldwin et al. to construct various [New Economic Geography] inspired models that are more easily tractable and perfectly solvable may inspire increased efforts to test these models empirically, which will further aid in a more robust empirical identification of the driving forces of firm location behavior and related regional welfare issues."--Jacob A. Jordaan, Progress in Human Geography