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. …

cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote … a generalised version of a tractable firm selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the …

rising. Whereas in developed countries urbanisation has been a long and slow process, in developing countries this process is … concentrate in one or few large metropolitan areas of disproportionate size. While urbanisation has been long recognised as a … fundamental element of the process of economic development, sustainable urbanisation has become one of the main and more pressing …

A large body of literature considers the productive advantages of cities, or "agglomeration economies". Most empirical … studies report positive agglomeration economies, although large variation exists in the magnitude of estimates. We use a meta …, we find agglomeration elasticities are likely to lie in the range 2.7–6.4%. Our findings confirm the controls enabled by …