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Internal Geography, International Trade, and Regional Outcomes

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  • Pablo Fajgelbaum

    (UCLA)

  • A. Kerem Cosar

    (University of Chicago)

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When trade is costly within countries, international trade leads to concentration of economic activity in locations with good access to foreign markets. Costly trade within countries also makes it hard for remote locations to gain from international trade. We investigate the role of these forces in shaping industry location, employment concentration and the gains from international trade. We develop a model that features comparative advantages between countries, coupled with differences in proximity to international markets across locations within a country. International trade creates a partition between a commercially integrated coastal region with high population density and an interior region where immobile factors are poorer. Reductions in domestic or international trade costs generate migration to the coastal region and net welfare losses for fixed factors in the interior region. We present motivating evidence from the U.S. which shows that export-oriented industries are more likely to locate closer to international ports. Then, we use the model to measure the importance of international trade in concentrating economic activity, and of domestic trade costs in hampering the gains from international trade.

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  • Pablo Fajgelbaum & A. Kerem Cosar, 2013. "Internal Geography, International Trade, and Regional Outcomes," 2013 Meeting Papers 63, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    • Handle: RePEc:red:sed013:63
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    1. Nuria Gallego & Carlos Llano, 2014. "The Border Effect and the Nonlinear Relationship between Trade and Distance," Review of International Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 22(5), pages 1016-1048, November.
    2. Redding, Stephen J. & Turner, Matthew A., 2015. "Transportation Costs and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity," Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, in: Gilles Duranton & J. V. Henderson & William C. Strange (ed.), Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, edition 1, volume 5, chapter 0, pages 1339-1398, Elsevier.
    3. Xiaodong Zhu & Trevor Tombe, 2015. "Trade, Migration and Regional Income Differences: Evidence from China," 2015 Meeting Papers 1534, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    4. Eberhardt, Markus & Wang, Zheng & Yu, Zhihong, 2016. "From one to many central plans: Drug advertising inspections and intra-national protectionism in China," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 44(3), pages 608-622.
    5. Trevor Tombe & Xiaodong Zhu, 2019. "Trade, Migration, and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis of China," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 109(5), pages 1843-1872, May.
    6. Baniya, Suprabha & Murray, Siobhan & Rocha, Nadia & Ruta, Michele, 2018. "Trade Effects of the New Silk Road," Conference papers 333010, Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project.

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