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Urban-Biased Structural Change
Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis; Perroni, Carlo; Wong, … - 2023
Using firm-level data from France, we document that the shift of economic activity from manufacturing to services over the last few decades has been urban-biased: structural change has been more pronounced in areas with higher population density. This bias can be accounted for by the location...
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Regional Specialization and Technological Leapfrogging
Amiti, Mary - 1999
This paper investigates circumstances where a region loses its technological leadership after some major technological breakthrough. Input-output linkages between firms in a Cournot upstream industry and a perfectly competitive downstream industry create forces for agglomeration in particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208168
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Economic growth of agglomerations and geographic concentration of industries : evidence for Germany
Geppert, Kurt (contributor); Gornig, Martin (contributor);  … - 2006
nonparametric regressions confirm a positive relation between the regional weight of sectors that are continuing to concentrate … fast growing industries is an important factor behind the changes in the spatial pattern of the economy. -- regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003324227
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Agglomeration, tax competition, and fiscal equalization
Wrede, Matthias - 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal equalization on asymmetric tax competition when positive agglomeration externalities are present. It shows that equalization of standardized tax revenue improves the spatial allocation of capital provided that agglomeration externalities are sufficiently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003865842
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Modelling the folk theorem of spatial economics : a heterogeneous regional growth model
Klarl, Torben - 2009
distribution of per capita productivity are closely linked. Thus, the aim of this paper is, to introduce a spatial regional growth … economics". -- Spatial Economics ; Agglomeration ; Spatial knowledge spillovers ; New economic geography ; Regional growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003867135
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Agglomeration premium and trading activity of firms
Békés, Gábor; Harasztosi, Péter - 2010
Firms may benefit from proximity to each other due to the existence of several externalities. The productivity premia of firms located in agglomerated regions an be attributed to savings and gains from external economies. However, the capacity to absorb information may depend on activities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919704
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Some evidence on the nature of urbanization economies
Krupka, Douglas J. - 2009
/resident happiness and/or reducing productivity of employers. -- Agglomeration ; urbanization economies ; congestion ; regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919879
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The mysteries of the trade : employment effects of urban interindustry spillovers
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2010
Theories in regional science predict that related establishments benefit from their mutual proximity due to forward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669642
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Urban growth in Germany : the impact of localization and urbanization economies
Illy, Annette; Hornych, Christoph; Schwartz, Michael; … - 2009
have positive impacts on regional growth, prior empirical studies do not show consistent results. Especially little is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003928711
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Agglomeration, congestion, and regional unemployment disparities
Zierahn, Ulrich - 2011
Regional labor markets are characterized by huge disparities of unemployment rates. Models of the New Economic … Geography explain how disparities of regional goods markets endogenously arise but usually assume full employment. This paper … discusses regional unemployment disparities by introducing a wage curve based on efficiency wages into the New Economic …
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