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Title: The Shrinking Advantage of Market Potential

Author(s): Marius Brülhart, Klaus Desmet and Gian-Paolo Klinke

Publication Date: November 2019

Keyword(s): economic development, market potential, regional growth and structural transformation

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: How does a country's economic geography evolve along the development path? This paper documents recent employment growth in 18,961 regions in eight of the world's main economies. Overall, market potential is losing importance, and local density is gaining importance, as correlates of local growth. In mature economies, growth is strongest in low-market-potential areas. In emerging economies, the opposite is true, though the association with market potential is also weakening there. Structural transformation away from agriculture can account for some of the observed changes. The part left unexplained by structural transformation is consistent with a standard economic geography model that yields a bell-shaped relation between trade costs and the growth of centrally located regions.

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Brülhart, M, Desmet, K and Klinke, G. 2019. 'The Shrinking Advantage of Market Potential'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=14157