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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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Labor pooling, labor poaching and spatial clustering

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

When firms cluster in the same local labor market, they face a trade-off between the benefits of labor pooling (i.e., access to workers whose knowledge help reduce costs) and the costs of labor poaching (i.e., loss of some key workers to competition and the indirect effect of a higher wage bill...

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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

agglomeration. However, the nature of those benefits remains unclear. In this paper we take advantage of a new dataset to quantify …

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The rise and fall of regional inequalities

Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996

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

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Trade and industrial location with heterogeneous labor

Amiti, Mary; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

the quality of the match between job and worker, trade liberalization may lead to industrial agglomeration and inter …-industry trade. The agglomeration force is the improvement in the quality of matches when firms recruit from a bigger pool of labor …. The forces against agglomeration are the existence of trade costs and monopoly power in the labor market. We show that …

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Rising trade costs?: agglomeration and trade with endogenous transaction costs

Duranton, Gilles; Storper, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

While transport costs have fallen, the empirical evidence also points at rising total trade costs. In a model of industry location with endogenous transaction costs, we show how and under which conditions a decline in transport costs can lead to an increase in the total cost of trade.

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