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The business performance of firms in the creative high-tech sector shows much variation. This paper examines whether the geographical location of such business firms influences the performance of these firms. The overarching analysis framework of this paper emerges from the recently developed...
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A large body of literature considers the productive advantages of cities, or "agglomeration economies". Most empirical … studies report positive agglomeration economies, although large variation exists in the magnitude of estimates. We use a meta …, we find agglomeration elasticities are likely to lie in the range 2.7-6.4%. Our findings confirm the controls enabled by …
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-connected knowledge-driven economy, the relevance of agglomeration forces that rely on proximity continues to increase, paradoxically …
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We consider whether external urban economic advantages (agglomeration economies) vary with time and space using a … agglomeration economies that are stronger than average. …
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We develop a novel model of price-fee competition in bilateral oligopoly markets with non-expandable infrastructures and costly transportation. The model captures a variety of real market situations and it is the continuous quantity version of the assignment game with indivisible goods on a .xed...
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Dams are essential for water storage and hydropower generation, but change river flow patterns and endanger local environments. Dam projects may further exacerbate already existing problems in trans-boundary rivers. We consider three scenarios of institutional factors: (1) each country pursues...
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This paper identifies pivotal factors behind individual decision-making in the transition from high school to post-secondary education in the Netherlands. We apply a multinomial logit framework to individual data on post-secondary education choices. Specifically, our modeling approach...
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In consumer cities, the presence and location of immigrants impacts house prices through two channels, which both can be valued positively as well as negatively: (i) their presence and contribution to population diversity and (ii) the creation of immigrant-induced consumer amenities like those...
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