Arbeitspapier
The home market effect, regional inequality, and intra-industry reallocations
In New Trade Theory models, the larger region hosts an overproportionate share of producers. This Home Market Effect (HME) exacerbates regional income discrepancies caused by trade frictions or technology differences. With homogeneous firms, it requires inter-industry reallocations to emerge. We present a heterogeneous firms single-sector model with fixed market access costs, in which the HME arises exclusively from empirically more relevant intra-industry reallocations. It is magnified by lower trade costs or higher heterogeneity. In contrast to multi-industry models, a more pronounced HME leads to regional income convergence as adjustment of the firm size distribution counteracts the effects of firmentry.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance ; No. 33
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
- Thema
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Home Market Effect
Regional Inequality
Monopolistic Competition
Heterogeneous Firms
Economic Geography
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Felbermayr, Gabriel
Jung, Benjamin
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
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Tübingen
- (wann)
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2012
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-61344
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Felbermayr, Gabriel
- Jung, Benjamin
- University of Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
Entstanden
- 2012