This paper investigates the effect of trade cost changes on the spatial productivity distribution in Korea. Data on gross value added and primary factors for 163 spatial units during 2000-2005 are assembled to estimate local TFP using a value-added function. In our application, we control for...

Why do biotech firms cluster? New and established firms in biotech clusters are said to capitalize on knowledge spillovers, labor-market pooling, and other externalities. Some have even argued that such spillovers are so strong that the cluster itself, rather than the individual, is the “locus...

The major objectives of this paper are to shed some light on the mechanism thatgenerates interregional economic imbalances among communities in rural China. Centralto this issue is the development of township and village enterprises (TVEs) because thepresence of secondary industry is closely...

This paper examines the impact of the embedding environment on learning, innovationand productivity in the computer and related component industries in Penang and Johor –two regions in Malaysia facing similar federal policies but different state-levelcoordination. Following a review of the...

Incluye bibliografía ; En este trabajo documentamos la existencia de aglomeración geográfica de empresas exportadoras según el país de destino de las exportaciones utilizando microdatos de la Balanza de Pagos. En este sentido, encontramos que las empresas que venden a países con peores...

La relevancia de las economías de aglomeración tipo urbanización sobre múltiples variables y/o dinámicas económicas se encuentra ampliamente documentada en la literatura. Sin embargo, es difícil ofrecer una medida sintética del nivel de aglomeración urbana que alcanza un territorio. En...