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RETAIL CITY: Does accessibility to shops explain place attractiveness?

Öner, Özge - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

This paper explores the role of retail as an amenity and how it contributes to place attractiveness. In this investigation the impact of accessibility to shops on average house prices is investigated using a fixed effect estimation. The analysis use data for Swedish municipalities through the...

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RETURNS TO LOCATION IN RETAIL: Investigating the relevance of market size and regional hierarchy

Öner, Özge - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

highly heterogeneous. In order to capture the urban-periphery interaction in retail markets, an accessible market potential … between urban and peripheral retail markets, as well as between different types of retailing activities. Market size in close … proximity is found to play an important role for stores selling goods for frequent purchase, whereas the relevant market extends …

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The location of new firms - Influence of commuting behaviour

Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

In this paper, we analyse where people who become self-employed actually start their firms. In the entrepreneurship literature, it is generally assumed that individuals who start a firm start it where they live. We question this general assumption and show that this does not hold for commuters....

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Metropolitan Regions: Preconditions and Strategies for Growth and Development in the Global Economy

Klaesson, Johan; Johansson, Börje; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011

knowledge generation and innovation. Further, market potential as a concept describing the economic concentration to and the … market potentials represent factors that adjust slowly and that play the same role for metropolitan development as …

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Regional Development and Knowledge

Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

This paper focuses on the concept of knowledge and examines models depicting and explaining the role of knowledge in regional development and provides an assessment of empirical studies of how knowledge affects growth and development in functional regions. For this paper it is crucial to...

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Spatial Density and Productivity – an analysis on one-by-one kilometer squares

Andersson, Martin; Klaesson, Johan; P Larsson, Johan - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011

This paper reassesses the relationship between density and productivity by using detailed geo-coded data on wages and employment in Sweden. The contribution is empirical and builds on an analysis of spatial units of exactly the same size in terms of geographic surface. The data divide Sweden...

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Music Scenes to Music Clusters - the economic geography of music in the U.S., 1970-2000

Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta; Stolarick, Kevin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

Where do musicians locate, and why do creative industries such as music continue to cluster? This paper analyzes the economic geography of musicians and the recording industry in the U.S. from 1970 to 2000 to shed light on the locational dynamics of music and creative industries more broadly. We...

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The Global-Local Interplay of MNE and Non-MNE Firms

Johansson, Börje; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

speed to firms with past experience of innovation activities and with established export market contacts. Second …

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Human Capital, Talent, Agglomeration and Regional Growth

Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje; Stough, Roger R. - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

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...

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Technology and Trade - an analysis of technology specialization and export flows

Andersson, Martin; Ejermo, Olof - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

This paper examines how technology specialization, measured by citations-weighted patents, affects trade flows. The paper analyzes (i) the relationship between technology specialization and export specialization across regions and (ii) how the technology specialization of origin and destination...

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