? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively … contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous … driven by knowledge flows that are triggered by emigrants. While skilled migrants are not inventing in their home country …

Tech clusters play a growing role in knowledge-based economies by accommodating high-tech firms and providing an … environment that fosters location-dependent knowledge spillovers and promote R&D investments by .rms. Yet, not much is known about … show that strongly localized knowledge spillovers, skilled labor abundance, and low commuting costs are key drivers for a …

that further integration will most likely be accompanied by higher levels of agglomeration …

formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are …

capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and …

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … deviation of 135. We deal with endogeneity concerns by using historical migration networks to instrument for stocks of migrant … inventors. Our results generalize the evidence of previous studies that show how migrant inventors “import” knowledge from their …

-Samuelson hypothesis. On the other hand, the population density variable that captures the agglomeration effect offers a good explanatory …

extending models of commodity tax competition to include urban spatial structure (agglomeration) and online commerce, one can …