If localization economies are present, firms within denser industry concentrations should exhibit higher levels of … survival has largely ignored the potential effects from agglomeration. Recent studies in urban and regional economics suggest … that agglomeration effects may be very localized. Analyses of industry concentration at the MSA or county-level may fail to …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine changes in manufacturing agglomeration in a small open economy over …/methodology/approach – This work adapts the methodology developed by De Propris to measure the relative level of manufacturing agglomeration … that manufacturing agglomeration has increased in Wales at a time when manufacturing employment is decreasing …

growth, agglomeration, and urban congestion. Unlike previous research in the urban growth literature, we formulate the model …

, to analyze empirically the relative impact of endowments and agglomeration based on the application of a New Economic …

This paper develops a quantitative model of internal city structure that features agglomeration and dispersion forces … estimate agglomeration and dispersion forces, we use data on thousands of city blocks in Berlin for 1936, 1986 and 2006 and … residential externalities. We show that the model with the estimated agglomeration parameters can account both qualitatively and …

geography exercises (the analysis of spatial concentration, agglomeration economies, and trade determinants), using various …

prewar Japan. Agglomeration improves the productivity of each plant through positive externalities which shift plant … distribution on the left. We find evidence of agglomeration effects that benefit less productive plants and selection effects in … studies that find positive agglomeration effects in the most productive firms, but no selection effects in cities (Combes et …

, where productivity is higher and has increased further thanks to agglomeration effects. In the process, the rural …