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Geography, Trade, And Macroeconomics, Hao Guo
Geography, Trade, And Macroeconomics, Hao Guo
Theses and Dissertations--Economics
This dissertation studies the effects of external integration and internal liberalization on the economic geography within a country when regions within the country have different access to the world market.
The first paper introduces internal geography into the Melitz (2003) model to examine how external and internal liberalizations affect the economic geography within a country. By dividing a country into a coastal region and an inland region, the model shows that trade leads the coastal region have a higher than proportional share of industry, and causes firms in the coastal region to be larger and more productive than firms in …