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Agglomeration, Integration, and Territorial Authority Scale in a System of Trading Cities. Centralisation versus Devolution
Del Gatto, Massimo - 2004
This paper emphasises the importance of the political-institutional dimension in the understanding of the spatial distribution of economic activity. We introduce the notion of Territorial Authority Scale, which refers to the degree of devolution (towards sub-national tiers of government)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324971
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Some evidence on the nature of urbanization economies
Krupka, Douglas J. - 2009
Urbanization economies - the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger cities - are a …. Krupka (2008) presents a general model in which exogenous variation in local productivity (natural advantage) and development …/resident happiness and/or reducing productivity of employers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269597
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The Penn effect within a country: Evidence from Japan
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Fujii, Eiji - 2012
within Japan, we find that the measures of sectoral productivity do not behave in the way suggested by the Balassa … prefectures. Furthermore, the intra-Japan Penn effect is driven essentially by prices of nontradables. The effect is also found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288476
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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition: theory and application to the German clothing industry
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2009
face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265261
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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition: theory and application to the German clothing industry
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2009
face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265924
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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition : theory and application to the German clothing industry
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2009
face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266034
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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition: theory and application to the German clothing industry
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2009
face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271260
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Coordination Failures, Clusters and Microeconomic Interventions
Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés - 2005
microeconomic interventions that promote coordination and collective action to improve productivity. Subsequently presented is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327178
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Multilevel Approaches and the Firm-Agglomeration Ambiguity in Economic Growth Studies
van Oort, Frank G.; Burger, Martijn J.; Knoben, Joris; … - 2012
increasingly common practice in the social sciences. As illustrated by detailed Dutch data on firm-level productivity, employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326334
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Vertical industry relations, spillovers and productivity: evidence from Chilean plants
López, Ricardo A.; Suedekum, Jens - 2007
spillovers on total factor productivity (TFP). In common with previous studies, we find evidence of intra-industry spillovers … relations into account. We find important productivity spillover effects from plants in upstream industries. Interestingly, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268123