geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering …

We study how industry-level agglomeration economies affect government policy. Using administrative data on firm …

This paper presents a model in which growth and geographic agglomeration of economic activities are mutually self … reinforcing processes. Industrial agglomeration in one location spurs growth because it reduces the cost of innovation in that … location through a pecuniary externality due to transaction costs. Growth fosters agglomeration because as the sector at the …

the agglomeration of increasing returns activities. When workers migrate towards locations with more firms and higher real … wages, this intensifies agglomeration. When workers do not move across regions, further reductions in transport costs make …

cross-section OLS and dynamic panel GMM estimation. Agglomeration is measured alternatively through measures of urbanization … sets and variable definitions, we find evidence that supports the "Williamson hypothesis": agglomeration boosts GDP growth …

-integrated firms is a counter-example to the strong agglomeration effects found in the CP model. A symmetric equilibrium will always be … stable and hence agglomeration is prevented. The introduction of vertically-integrated firms that can separate the location … original CP model and thus lead to more agglomeration. Second, it also tends to decrease the parameter space in which full …