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New Economic Geography, Empirics, and Regional Policy
There are doubts about the effectiveness of regional policy, according to the authors. They validate one explanation: agglomeration advantages lock business activity in relatively prosperous core regions, even though wages – and thus production costs – tend to be higher there.
Geography
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http://www.cpb.nl/eng/pub/cpbreeksen/bijzonder/56/bijz56.pdf