This paper surveys the literature on the implications of trade liberalisation for intra-national
economic geographies. Three results stand out. First, neither urban systems models nor new …

We study the impact of falling international trade costs and falling national transport costs on
the economic geography of countries involved in an integration process. Each country is …

We investigate the role of competitive transport markets in shaping the location of economic
activity and the pattern of trade. In our model, carriers supply transport services for shipping …

Container ships travel between a fixed set of origins and destinations in round trips, inducing
a negative correlation in their freight rates. I study the implications of this round trip effect on …

Although transport costs are a key-ingredient of New Economic Geography, the transport
sector is usually abstracted away from the analysis. Put differently, freight rates are taken as …

Quantitative trade models used to evaluate the effects of policy changes have largely
abstracted away from modeling the transportation industry. This paper extends a standard …

This paper examines the role of domestic transport on regional export trade in Greece. It
aims to understand how changes in the transport conditions of a region can affect its own …

This chapter reviews the New Economic Geography (NEG) models that explain the uneven
distribution of economic activity across space employing endogenous agglomeration …

According to economic theory, imbalances in trade flows affect transport prices, because
(some) carriers have to return without cargo from the low-demand region to the high …

By exploiting the 1995 Hanshin earthquake in western Japan as an exogenous shock to the
container traffic of Northeast Asia, our study shows that economies of density in the …