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Concentration, agglomeration and the size of plants

Lafourcade, Miren; Mion, Giordano - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper investigates whether the geographic distribution of manufacturing activities depends on the size of plants. Using Italian data, we find, as in Kim [Kim, S., 1995. Expansion of markets and the geographic concentration of economic activities: the trends in U.S. regional manufacturing...

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From sectoral to functional urban specialisation

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

We document and then develop a model explaining and relating changes in firms'' organisation and in urban structure. Sharing of business services by headquarters and of sector-specific intermediates by production plants within a city reduces costs, while congestion increases with city size. A...

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Geographic concentration and the temporal scope of agglomeration economics: an index decomposition

Wren, Colin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

The paper decomposes a geographical concentration index to examine the temporal scope of a spillover, which is the period of time over which one firm’s activity directly affects the location of other firms’ activities. Natural advantages are fixed over reasonably long time periods, but if...

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Mountains in a flat world: why proximity still matters for the location of economic activity

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Crescenzi, Riccardo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

Thomas Friedman (2005, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) argues that the expansion of trade, the internationalization of firms, the galloping process of outsourcing and the possibility of networking are creating a ‘flat...

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Is the sky the limit? an analysis of high-rise office buildings

Koster, Hans R.A.; Rietveld, Piet; van Ommerren, Jos N. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Modern central business districts are characterised by high-rise office buildings. Helsley and Strange (2008) argue that skyscrapers are caused by agglomeration economies and a prize for being the tallest, so a reputation effect. We aim to test the relevance of this model by investigating the...

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The influence of neighbourhood effects on education decisions in a nationally funded education system : the case of Australia

Overman, Henry G.; Heath, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

Empirical papers studying the effects of neighbourhood characteristics on socio-economic variables have predominantly used US data. We argue that the local nature of the US schooling system means that neighbourhood effects on education decisions may act through fiscal or social channels. We use...

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Neighbourhood effects in small neighbourhoods

Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper uses data on a sample of Australian teenagers to test for neighbourhood effects on school dropout rates. The data allows us to test for neighbourhood effects at two different spatial scales. We find that educational composition of the larger neighbourhood can influence the dropout...

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Neighbourhood effects in small neighbourhoods

Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

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Cities, matching and the productivity gains of agglomeration

Andersson, Fredrick; Burgess, Simon; Lane, Julia I. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

. Another critical condition is required for this to generate higher productivity: complementarity of worker and firm quality in … the production function. Using establishment level productivity regressions, we show that such complementarity is found in … assortative matching is an important source of the urban productivity premium. …

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Do large departments make academics more productive? agglomeration and peer effects in research

Bosquet, Clément; Combes, Pierre-Philippe - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We study the effect of a large set of department characteristics on individual publication records. We control for many individual time-varying characteristics, individual fixed-effects and reverse causality. Department characteristics have an explanatory power that can be as high as that of...

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