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diversification of capital agglomeration of capital occurs. Hence, regional policy will not achieve its objective to equal the spatial …
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upon the firms' risk preferences. As a result regional agglomeration of investments may occur although the objective of the …
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agglomeration. The analysis shows a clear and strong selection of more productive new establishments into larger regions, regardless … show higher productivity levels as compared to those located in smaller regions, the role of an agglomeration is very … first time period, but start-ups suffer negative agglomeration effects over time. …
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terms of productivity than non-traders when agglomeration rises. Firms that are stable participants of international trade … gain 16 % in terms of total factor productivity growth as agglomeration doubles while non-traders may not benefit from … agglomeration at all. Results also suggest that traders' productivity premium is most apparent in urbanised economies. …
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We estimate a model of urban productivity in which the agglomeration effect of density is enhanced by a metropolitan …
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incentives are in the presence of agglomeration and urbanisation externalities. We find evidence that regional industrial …
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agglomeration processes. …
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Do trade integration and fiscal competition contribute to shape the economic landscape? The answer is yes. This paper uses a theoretical model and an econometric analysis of Brazilian regional manufacturing employment data over the period 1990-1998 to address this question. Brazil is a natural...
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This paper considers a model of spatial allocation of investment capital under uncertainty. We demonstrate that the spatial concentration of economic activity depends upon properties of risk preferences deeper than risk aversion. The degree of so-called relative prudence unambiguously decides...
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Regional politicians regard the cluster concept as a key factor for promoting regional economic performance. They refer to a comprehensive set of theoretical and empirical literature which provides the clusters' positive impact on regional development. Recent studies dealing with that topic...
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