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-2000 period. There are two kind of regional product determinants: spatial variables (intra and interregional agglomeration forces …
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: spatial variables (intra and interregional agglomeration forces) and non spatial variables (firm size and public capital …
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firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters that are much larger than the underlying agglomerative forces themselves …
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, it is also pertinent to consider the effects of the geographical agglomeration of economic activity. Moreover, it would … also seem pertinent to consider not just the levels of inequality and agglomeration, but also the changes they undergo (i … specifications and by introducing different measures of agglomeration at country level (specifically, urbanization and urban …
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real-world tendency for agglomeration to the primate city. It is often observed that while regional populations were …
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Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...
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This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the …
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agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to the agglomeration of domestic firms? Using a unique worldwide plant … spatially continuous index of agglomeration and analyze the different patterns underlying the global economic geography of … are not a simple reflection of domestic industrial clusters. Agglomeration economies including technology diffusion and …
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The link between urban concentration and economic growth at country level is not straightforward, as there are benefits as well as costs associated with urban concentration. Indeed, recent empirical evidence suggests different effects of urban concentration on growth depending on the level of...
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This paper presents a few stylized facts on the patterns of China's industrialization by computing a set of multi-dimensional measures on industrial concentration, regional specialization, and clustering based on census data at the firm level in 1995 and 2004. Our results show that China's rapid...
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