This paper tests a geography and growth model using regional data for Europe, the US, and Japan. We set up a standard …

increasingly common practice in the social sciences. As illustrated by detailed Dutch data on firm-level productivity, employment …

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 …

productivity. The so called folk theorem of spatial economics states, that increasing returns to scale are essential for explaining … and distribution of per capita productivity are closely linked. Thus, the aim of this paper is, to introduce a spatial … regional growth model, which links first time knowledge spillover, agglomeration, distribution of per capita productivity and …

. Knowledge spillovers, which are non constant over space, should influence the evolution of the region specific productivity. The … distribution of per capita productivity are closely linked. Thus, the aim of this paper is, to introduce a spatial regional growth … model, which links first time knowledge spillover, agglomeration, distribution of per capita productivity and the grasp of …