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Competitors, Complementors, Parents and Places : Explaining Regional Agglomeration in the U.S. Auto Industry
Cabral, Luis M. B. - 2018
Taking the early U.S. automobile industry as an example, we evaluate four competing hypotheses on regional industry agglomeration: intra-industry local externalities, inter-industry local externalities, employee spinouts, and location fixed-effects. Our findings suggest that inter-industry...
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Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing Industries : A Dartboard Approach
Ellison, Glenn; Glaeser, Edward L. - 2021
This paper discusses the prevalence of Silicon Valley-style localizations of individual manufacturing industries in the United States. Several models in which firms choose locations by throwing darts at a map are used to test whether the degree of localization is greater than would be expected...
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The Agglomeration of Us Ethnic Inventors
Kerr, William - 2014
agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends …
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Agglomeration and Innovation
Carlino, Gerald A. - 2014
This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049373
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Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Chatterji, Aaron - 2014
This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United … identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063998
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Tech Clusters
Kerr, William; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - 2021
Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic …
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The Effect of High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors
Moretti, Enrico - 2019
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The Geography of Fear
Treisman, Daniel - 2011
Whether the danger invoked is nuclear war or genetically modified foods, far more people in some countries than in others say they are afraid. Using data from six surveys, I show that the levels of reported fear of different dangers correlate strongly across both individuals and countries. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129117
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Making Friends with Your Neighbors? Agglomeration and Tacit Collusion in the Lodging Industry
Gan, Li - 2011
Agglomeration is a location pattern frequently observed in service industries such as hotels. This paper empirically examines if agglomeration facilitates tacit collusion in the lodging industry using a quarterly dataset of hotels that operated in rural areas across Texas between 2003 and 2005....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130967
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Spiders and Snakes : Offshoring and Agglomeration in the Global Economy
Baldwin, Richard - 2011
Global production sharing is determined by international cost differences and frictions related to the costs of unbundling stages spatially. The interaction between these forces depends on engineering details of the production process with two extremes being 'snakes' and 'spiders'. Snakes are...
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