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  • Essays on productivity, economic geography and trade : the case of Chile

    Creator:
    Echeverria, Rodrigo A.
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    This dissertation investigates the relative importance of firm-specific and geographic characteristics for export behavior in the Chilean primary and processed food industries. The first essay develops a new method for measuring geographic characteristics to account for economic activity in adjacent, but separate spatial units. In the application to the Chilean...
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    Productivity, Economic Geography and Trade: The Case of Chile by Rodrigo A. Echeverria

  • Three essays on firm heterogeneity and regional development

    Creator:
    Saito, Hisamitsu
    Abstract:
    The objective of this dissertation is to theoretically and empirically examine the role of firm heterogeneity in terms of productivity and skill-intensity in the agglomeration process and the effect of agglomeration on regional economic development. In the first essay, I analyze the effect of trade liberalization on agglomeration of high-...
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    regional economic development. By extending a new-economic-geography model, I find that competition