Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81188 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IUI Working Paper No. 616
Publisher: 
The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI), Stockholm
Abstract: 
This paper presents evidence that, in Europe, production of high-tech goods is attracted to large markets, while R&D activities tend to be located away from them. In order to explain this phenomenon, we develop a two-country general equilibrium model where firms make separate choices about the location of R&D and high-tech production. There are two agglomeration forces: R&D spillovers and a home-market effect creating incentives for firms to locate production in the relatively large market. We show that, for relatively weak R&D spillovers and intermediate trade costs, the smaller economy tends to specialize in R&D. We also discuss the welfare consequences of different outcomes with respect to the location of R&D, showing that while skilled labor may gain from hosting an agglomeration of R&D activities, unskilled labor will lose.
Subjects: 
Monopolistic Competition
R&D
High-Tech Production
Agglomeration Economies
JEL: 
F12
F23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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