We review the theoretical links between growth and agglomeration. Growth, in the form of innovation, can be at the … origin of catastrophic spatial agglomeration in a cumulative process à la Myrdal. One of the surprising features of the … could lead to catastrophic agglomeration. The growth analog to this result is that the introduction of endogenous growth in …

of agglomeration effects on growth prospects of firms is less clear. Because of the heterogeneity of industries …, different agglomeration mechanisms, or the way how industrial clusters are identified and spatially delimited, the conclusions … separately. Therefore, for each firm a micro-geographically defined agglomeration measure is calculated, which is free of the …

-geographically defined agglomeration measures, free of the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP), are used to study 23 industries. The spatial … impacts of agglomeration of related economic and knowledge generating activities are examined by using travel time distances … prospects tend to be hampered by the agglomeration of own-industry employment, but improved by proximate scientific activity …

We model international tax competition allowing for agglomeration forces and heterogeneous firms. This provides a new …