key insight that emerges is that the interaction between agglomeration economies and comparative advantage involves a … comparative advantage in sectors governed by this force whilst the impact of agglomeration economies is enhanced by trade cost … small economies is not only shaped by the primitives that determine agglomeration economies and comparative advantage but …

This paper presents a simple, analytically solvable Chamberlinian agglomeration model. As in the canonical core …

This paper examines the role of regional aggregation in measuring agglomeration externalities. Using Dutch … agglomeration externalities at a higher spatial scale. We quantify subgroup differentials and find that high-educated workers have … agglomeration externalities twice as high as low-educated workers. We show that workers who lose their job in denser LLMs experience …

-size distribution? Do they affect individual city sizes? Do they contribute to the productivity advantage of large cities and the …-size distribution ; productivity ; markups …

How much of the geographic clustering of economic activity is attributable to agglomeration spillovers as opposed to … attenuated, suggesting the presence of important agglomeration spillovers. Over a 50 year horizon, I estimate that at least one … removing control counties with environmental regulations. I also find small local agglomeration effects from smaller dam …

/resident happiness and/or reducing productivity of employers. -- Agglomeration ; urbanization economies ; congestion ; regional …Urbanization economies - the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger cities - are a …. Krupka (2008) presents a general model in which exogenous variation in local productivity ("natural advantage") and …

larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the … samples, and area definitions. -- agglomeration ; firm selection ; productivity ; cities … cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote …