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Competitors, Complementors, Parents and Places: Explaining Regional Agglomeration in the U.S. Auto Industry

Cabral, Luis M B; Wang, Zhu; Xu, Daniel Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

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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Agglomeration and Innovation

Carlino, Gerald; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

we discuss important findings from the literature about why this is so. We highlight the traits of cities (e.g., size …

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Railroads and American Economic Growth: A "Market Access" Approach

Donaldson, Dave; Hornbeck, Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper examines the historical impact of railroads on the American economy. Expansion of the railroad network may have affected all counties directly or indirectly - an econometric challenge that arises in many empirical settings. However, the total impact on each county is captured by...

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Cities and the Environment

Kahn, Matthew E.; Walsh, Randall Phillip - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

regulations enacted by voters. We explore four main issues related to sustainability and environmental quality in cities. First … households locate within a city. We then analyze how ongoing suburbanization affects the carbon footprint of cities. Third, we … explore how the system of cities is affected by urban environmental amenity dynamics and we explore the causes of these …

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Defining Clusters of Related Industries

Delgado, Mercedes; Porter, Michael E.; Stern, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Clusters are geographic concentrations of industries related by knowledge, skills, inputs, demand, and/or other linkages. A growing body of empirical literature has shown the positive impact of clusters on regional and industry performance, including job creation, patenting, and new business...

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Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies, and the Big Push: 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority

moretti, enrico; Kline, Patrick M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We study the long run effects of one of the most ambitious regional development programs in U.S. history: the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Using as controls authorities that were proposed but never approved by Congress, we find that the TVA led to large gains in agricultural employment that...

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Quality of Life, Firm Productivity, and the Value of Amenities across Canadian Cities

Albouy, David; Leibovici, Fernando; Warman, Casey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

various cities, which differ in their wage levels, housing costs, and land values. Using 2006 Canadian Census data, our … Allophones, and lowest in more remote cities. Toronto is Canada's most productive city; Vancouver is the overall most valuable …

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Dutch Disease or Agglomeration? The Local Economic Effects of Natural Resource Booms in Modern America

Allcott, Hunt; Keniston, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Do natural resources benefit producer economies, or is there a "Natural Resource Curse," perhaps as Dutch Disease crowds out manufacturing? We combine new data on oil and gas abundance with Census of Manufactures microdata to estimate how oil and gas booms have affected local economies in the...

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Knife Edge of Plateau: When Do Market Models Tip?

Ellison, Glenn; Fudenberg, Drew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

This paper studies whether agents must agglomerate at a single location in a class of models of two-sided interaction. In these models there is an increasing returns effect that favors agglomeration, but also a crowding or market-impact effect that makes agents prefer to be in a market with...

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Is There a New Urbanism? The Growth of U.S. Cities in the 1990s

Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Shapiro, Jesse - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

The 1990s were an unusually good decade for the largest American cities and, in particular, for the cities of the …-war decades. The growth of cities was determined by three large trends: (1) cities with strong human capital bases grew faster … than cities without skills, (2) people moved to warmer, drier places, and (3) cities built around the automobile replaced …

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