accessing useful knowledge by adopting, producing, and diffusing new ideas. Combining location information for the universe of 3 … arose through agglomeration economies and localized knowledge spillovers. To support this claim, we provide evidence … the same society had higher similarity in patenting, suggesting that social networks facilitated spatial knowledge …

We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography … endogenous emergence of industry clusters. Spatial variations in knowledge spillovers lead to spatial concentration of more …. Narrowing the gap in knowledge spillovers across regions raises growth, and reduces regional inequality by making firms more …

' access to new and better capital goods depends on the knowledge gap, i.e., the wedge between the firm's technical knowledge … knowledge diffusion subsequently leading to declining business dynamism. Our findings indicate that only when knowledge … markups, falling labor share and productivity growth. Patents are an important obstacle to knowledge diffusion. We find an …

Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was to create a Bavarian-wide innovation network in support of state …-wide knowledge flows. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find that introducing the Bavarian-wide cluster policy increased … the likelihood of innovation by a firm in the targeted industry by 4 to 7 percentage points. However, this effect is …

Many data situations require the consideration of network effects among the cross-sectional units of observation. In … this paper, we present a generalized panel model which accounts for two features: (i) three types of network effects on the … error components, and (ii) higher-order network effects due to ex-ante unknown network-decay functions or the presence of …

underlying network structure can inform us about the potential gains from policies that increase economic activity in specific … networks in the spatial diffusion of local economic shocks. We develop a network model that shows how a district's level of … prosperity is related to its position in the network. The network model's first-order conditions are used to derive an …

that the completely connected network is stable, although, its exact structure, and thus contagion implications, is …

financial network where good firms enjoy direct and indirect benefits from linking with one another. Bad risks benefit from …

, and different network layers. At the individual level, homophilous tendencies are persistent across time and network … those characteristics. We also document the nuanced impact of network connections on changes in Grade Point Average. …

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … exchange. Knowledge in any country depends on the human capital of the countries it exchanges knowledge with. The diffusion of …