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The productivity advantages of large cities: Distinguishing agglomeration from firm selection

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012

cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote … a generalised version of a tractable firm selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the …

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Taxing Pollutuion: Agglomeration and Welfare Consequences

Berliant, Marcus; Peng, Shin-Kun; Wang, Ping - 2012

This paper demonstrates that a pollution tax with a fixed cost component may lead, by itself, to segregation between clean and dirty firms without heterogeneous preferences or increasing returns. We construct a simple model with two locations and two industries (clean and dirty) where pollution...

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A Scale-Free Transportation Network Explains the City-Size Distribution

Berliant, Marcus; Watanabe, Hiroki - 2012

Zipf's law is one of the best-known empirical regularities of the city-size distribution. There is extensive research on the subject, where each city is treated symmetrically in terms of the cost of transactions with other cities. Recent developments in network theory facilitate the examination...

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The Productive City Needs both - localization and urbanization economies across spatial scales in the city

Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P; Lundblad, Joakim - 2015

This paper revisits a classical inquiry by addressing the question of localization and urbanization economies. We propose that specialization and diversity may offer externalities operating at different spatial scales. Using high-resolution geo-coded plant-level panel data for Swedish cities...

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Human capital sorting: The "when" and "who" of sorting of talents to urban regions

Ahlin, Lina; Andersson, Martin; Thulin, Per - 2017

Sorting of high-ability workers is a main source of urban-rural disparities in economic outcomes. Less is known about when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we demonstrate significant sorting to urban regions on...

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The economic microgeography of diversity and specialization

Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Wernberg, Joakim - 2017

-standing question whether agglomeration economies derive from specialization (within-industry) or diversity (between-industry). We show …

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A scale-free transportation network explains the city-size distribution

Berliant, Marcus; Watanabe, Axel H. - In: Quantitative Economics 9 (2018) 3, pp. 1419-1451

Zipf's law is one of the best known empirical regularities in urban economics. There is extensive research on the subject, where each city is treated symmetrically in terms of the cost of transactions with other cities. Recent developments in network theory facilitate the examination of an...

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Mysteries of the Trade? Skill-Specific Local Agglomeration Economies

Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P. - 2020

Using longitudinal Swedish data, we document robust evidence of highly local spillovers between individuals in similar occupations. The results are consistent with the existence of knowledge spillovers between workers performing similar work tasks in the same city-district. We further...

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Local rates of new firm formation: An empirical exploration using Swedish data

Andersson, Martin; Lavesson, Niclas; Partridge, Mark D. - 2019

skilled workers. We conclude that industry structure, geography and agglomeration matter, but in the end, new firms are …

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