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That’s Entertainment - scale and scope economies in the location and clustering of the entertainment economy

Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta; Stolarick, Kevin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

, access to shared labor, network interactions and economies of scale as well as scope. We hypothesize that the combined …

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How Do State Arts Appropriations Affect State Economic Growth?

Deskins, John; Deskins, Sally; Hill, Brian - In: The Review of Regional Studies 39 (2009) 3, pp. 253-67

In this study, we examine the effect of public spending for the arts on state economic growth among U.S. states. While there is a large literature on the effects of many elements of public spending on economic growth, this literature has ignored spending for the arts. We extend this literature...

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Music Scenes to Music Clusters - the economic geography of music in the U.S., 1970-2000

Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta; Stolarick, Kevin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

Where do musicians locate, and why do creative industries such as music continue to cluster? This paper analyzes the economic geography of musicians and the recording industry in the U.S. from 1970 to 2000 to shed light on the locational dynamics of music and creative industries more broadly. We...

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History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railroads, Settlers and Cities in Kenya

Jedwab, Remi; Kerby, Edward; Moradi, Alexander - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

Little is known about the extent and forces of urban path dependence in developing countries. Railroad construction in colonial Kenya provides a natural experiment to study the emergence and persistence of this spatial equilibrium. Using new data at a fine spatial level over one century...

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History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railroads, Settlers and Cities in Kenya

Jedwab, Remi; Kerby, Edward; Moradi, Alexander - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2014

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Forms of emergence and the evolution of economic landscapes

Martin, Ron; Sunley, Peter - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 82 (2012) 2, pp. 338-351

Over the past two decades, the notion of ‘emergence’ has attracted increasing attention and controversy across the social science, including economics. Within this context, as economic geographers, our concern in this paper is with the usefulness of the idea of emergence for studying the...

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History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railroads, Settlers and Cities in Kenya

Jedwab, Remi; Kerby, Edward; Moradi, Alexander - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2014

Little is known about the extent and forces of urban path dependence in developing countries. Railroad construction incolonialKenyaprovidesanaturalexperimenttostudytheemer- gence and persistence of this spatial equilibrium. Using new data...

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The dynamics of agglomeration : evidence from Ireland and Portugal

BARRIOS, Salvador; BERTINELLI, Luisito; STROBL, Eric; … - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2004

This paper analyses and compares the dynamics of agglomeration in Portuguese and Irish manufacturing industries between 1985 and 1998 implementing Dumais, Ellison and Glaeser (2002) methodology. Using comparable and exhaustive micro-level data sets, we find that s industries tend to be subject...

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Regional institutions and economic growth of regions

Zaucha, Jacek Adam - Instytut Rozwoju - 2014

The paper presents the results of literature research on the role of institutions in development. The paper refers to … development. This observation also plays important role in so called place-based policy paradigm proposed by Barca. Institutions … show that the institutions, according to leading economists, are an important determinant of economic growth. The growth …

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INTERACTIONS, SPILLOVERS DE CONNAISSANCE ET CROISSANCE DES VILLES EUROPÉENNES - QUEL EST LE RÔLE DE LA GÉOGRAPHIE, DU CLIMAT INSTITUTIONNEL ET DES RÉSEAUX DES FIRMES MULTINATIONALES ?

BAUMONT, Catherine; GUILLAIN, Rachel - In: Region et Developpement 38 (2013), pp. 161-207

Nous étudions si les spillovers entre les économies urbaines associés aux externalités de connaissance existent et quels sont leurs impacts sur la croissance économique de 82 villes européennes sur la période 1990-2005. Nous modélisons les spillovers entre les villes en distinguant cinq...

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