The present work assess the effects of MAR and Jacob's type agglomeration economies on a sample of firms in the machineries and textiles industries in Greece for the periods 1989-91 and 1999-01. The analysis employs a stochastic production frontier function and allows agglomeration economies to...

The paper analyses the causal effect of capital subsidies on firms' efficiency and productivity by exploiting the conditions for a local random experiment created by Law 488/92 (henceforth L488), which has been an important policy instrument for reducing territorial disparities in Italy. The...

Nowadays metropolitan spaces are key territorial references for analysis and action. They are of critical economic, social and political importance. Three decades ago the Mexican urban structure was characterized by the existence of a principal city, Mexico City, where the national government,...

This paper aims to address the problem of achieving soybean production and how technological factors influence the realization of production. Was choosing the most efficient technological variants of crop. We compared in the experiment realized at ARDS Turda how the two systems works: classic...

This paper aims to analyze the economic efficiency at the macroeconomic level of the agricultural sector in Romania, in order to determine the level of profitability or feasibility regarding this economic sector, respectively agriculture. In order to be able to determine the global economic...

Firms productivity is crucially influenced by knowledge spillovers generated either by other firms located nearby or by direct contacts with consumers or by foreign demand in the case of traded products. In this paper we propose a new channel of efficiency-enhancing knowledge diffusion, which...