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Baicker, Katherine (contributor); … - 2010

even within cities industrial clusters remain vital. Agglomeration Economics brings together a group of essays that examine … information. The studies cover a wide range of topics and approach the economics of agglomeration from different angles. Together … they advance our understanding of agglomeration and its implications for a globalized world …

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Urban productivity in the developing world

Glaeser, Edward L.; Xiong, Wentao - In: Oxford review of economic policy 33 (2017) 3, pp. 373-404

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND URBAN GROWTH:AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT WITH HISTORICAL MINES

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013

Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...

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Clusters of entrepreneurship

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R.; Ponzetto, Giacomo … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009

Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little consensus on why this relationship exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry costs or raise...

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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...

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