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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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Agglomeration and the adjustment of the spatial economy

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

We consider the literatures on urban systems and New Economic Geography to examine questions concerning agglomeration …

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Economic linkages across space

Overman, Henry G.; Rice, Patricia; Venables, Anthony J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We develop a diagrammatic framework that can be used to study the economic linkages between regions or cities. Hitherto, such linkages have not been the primary focus of either the theoretical or empirical literatures. We show that our general framework can be used to interpret both the New...

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The effects of agglomeration on wages: evidence from the micro-level

Fingleton, Bernard; Longhi, Simonetta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper estimates individual wage equations in order to test two rival non-nested theories of economic agglomeration … examine the issue of agglomeration processes associated with contemporary theory working with micro-level data, highlighting …

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An 'integrated' framework for the comparative analysis of the territorial innovation dynamics of developed and emerging countries

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This paper discusses recent developments in the literature on local and regional innovative performance to show how an ‘integrated’ conceptual framework based on the cross-fertilization of different theories can serve as a foundation for the comparative analysis of territorial innovation...

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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

that skyscrapers are caused by agglomeration economies and a prize for being the tallest, so a reputation effect. We aim to … sum of a within-building agglomeration effect and a reputation effect. Using semiparametric techniques, we disentangle … reputation effects from agglomeration effects and demonstrate that the reputation effect is substantial for tall buildings. For …

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Buzz: face-to-face contact and the urban economy

Storper, Michael; Venables, Anthony J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper argues that existing models of urban concentrations are incomplete unless grounded in the most fundamental aspect of proximity; face-to-face contact. Face-to-face contact has four main features; it is an efficient communication technology; it can help solve incentive problems; it can...

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Evolution of locations, specialisation and factor returns with two distinct waves of globalisation

Thia, Jang Ping - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

perform. Globalisation occurs in two distinct phases, leading to the agglomeration of an industry (manufacturing) in the first …. Because of agglomeration effects, the increase in relative endowment of a factor may increase its relative wages, leading to …

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Evaluating urban transport improvements: cost benefit analysis in the presence of agglomeration and income taxation

Venables, Tony - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

There is a substantial empirical literature quantifying the positive relationship between city size and productivity. The paper draws out the implications of this productivity relationship for evaluations of urban transport improvements. A theoretical model is developed and used to derive a...

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Agglomeration in a global economy: a survey

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

cluster together, turning location into a self-reinforcing process. However, agglomeration raises the price of immobile local …

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