A partir de una revisión de la literatura sobre las economías de aglomeración se resaltan los aportes de diversos trabajos teóricos y empíricos, en particular, los que se relacionan con las causas de tales economías. Como referencias principales se toman dos trabajos pioneros, el de G....

Contributions from theoretical and empirical work were considered following a review of the literature concerning the economics of agglomeration, particularly those related to the causes of such economics. The pioneering work of G.Duranton and D. Puga (2003) and S. Rosenthal and W. Strange...

This paper analyzes human capital externalities from high-skilled workers by applying functional regression to precise geocoded register data. Functional regression enables us to describe the concentration of high-skilled workers around workplaces as continuous curves and to efficiently estimate...

The present paper is part of unpublished book that analyzes the political, social and economic collapse of the Sudan. Economic, social and distributive disparities triggered a process for the disintegration of the nation under the pretext of imposing Islamic Sharia Laws. A pronounced prominent...

This paper analyzes human capital externalities from high-skilled workers by applying functional regression to precise geocoded register data. Functional regression enables us to describe the concentration of high-skilled workers around workplaces as continuous curves and to efficiently estimate...

We examine how the co-location of firms in the same industry affects analysts' cost of gathering and processing information. We find that when the firms in an analyst's portfolio are located farther away from other firms in the same industry, the analyst's portfolio size is smaller and average...

This paper is an introductory overview highlighting some of the current knowledge as regards three critical questions related to the emerging knowledge economy: i) Why does human capital and talent tend to agglomerate in large urban regions?, ii) How does this agglomeration affect the location...

We study a model of local evolution. Players are located on a network and play games agains their neighbors. Players are characterized by three properties: (1) The stage game strategies they use agains their neighbors. (2) The repeated game strategy that determines the former. (3) A learning...

El objetivo del presente trabajo es doble. Por un lado, tratamos de ofrecer una visión panorámica de la concentración de la producción en el interior de Andalucía en la década de los noventa,y por otro lado, analizamos algunos de los factores que pueden estar condicionando dicha...

In this paper we explore the relationship between the spatial agglomeration of economic activity and regional economic growth in Spain during the period 1870-1930. The study allows us to revisit the existence of a trade-off between economic growth and territorial cohesion and also to examine...