New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...

New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...

The paper investigates the spatial patterns of industrial location and environmental pollution in a new-economic-geography model. Factors of production and their owners are mobile, but factor owners are not required to live in the region in which their factors are employed. Under laisser-faire,...

The information technology sector in Europe, comprising the production of computer hardware and software, is disproportionately located on the continent’s western periphery. The vast bulk of computers sold in Europe in the 1990s were assembled either in Ireland or Scotland, while Ireland also...

Using an analytically solvable equilibrium model, we study how the distribution of economic activities is affected by the trade-off between pecuniary externalities, as dependent on transportation costs, and localized technological externalities, as dependent on inter-regional spillovers. We...

Outsourcing- und Offshoring-Aktivitäten finden längst nicht mehr nur in stark routinierten, sondern zunehmend auch in hoch wissensintensiven Unternehmensbereichen statt. Diese betriebliche Reorganisation wirkt sich jedoch nicht nur vorteilhaft aus, sondern stellt Beschäftigte auf der...

Die Gewerbeimmobilienmärkte stehen angesichts der konjunkturellen Lage, aber auch angesichts struktureller Umbrüche vor großen Herausforderungen. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird in dem vorliegenden Report die Mietpreisentwicklung bei Einzelhandels- und Büroobjekten untersucht. Betrachtet wird...

This paper presents a hedonic housing price model for the city of Glasgow in Scotland. The major innovation of the research is the use of hierarchical clustering techniques to identify property submarkets defined by a combination of property types, locations and socioeconomic characteristics of...

Previous work on hedonic price functions tends to have focused on one of a number of specification and estimation issues; namely, market segmentation, choice of functional form, multicollinearity or spatial autocorrelation. The purpose of this paper is to bring together these various strands to...