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TRANSPORTATION, FRONTIER EFFECTS AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE COMMON MARKET
Author(s) -
Evers Gerard H. M.,
Oosterhaven Jan
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/j.1435-5597.1988.tb01113.x
Subject(s) - frontier , redistribution (election) , economic geography , economics , scale (ratio) , geography , cartography , political science , archaeology , politics , law
In tins paper the locational effects of introducing High Speed Railways in France, the Benelux and West Germany art estimated, together with the spatial impacts of a far reaching reduction of the internal borders of the EEC. To this aim a multisectoral potentials model is developed. It estimates the zero‐sum kind of spatial redistribution effects that are due to changes in relative regional accessibility, as well as the generative net growth effects that are due to increases in market areas and the conseguent economies of scale. Empirically, surprising spatial differences in such effects are found.