Since the mid-1990s the increase in the use of mobile phones in France has led mobile phone operators to put up numerous phone masts in residential areas. For a decade or so, the presence of mobile phone masts has led to a number of complaints brought before the courts explicitly revealing a...

This paper explores the relation between vertical disintegration and the co-localization of knowledge intensive business service (Kibs) firms in the metropolitan region of Milan, using micro-geographic data and nonparametric methods. Our main results are that: (i) compared to other manufacturing...