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How important are agglomeration effects for plant performance? : empirical evidence for Germany

Fuchs, Michaela; Ludewig, Oliver - 2010 - Preliminary version

to influence productivity. To this end we estimate plant-level production functions augmented by regional characteristics …

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The productive city needs both : localization and urbanization economies across spatial scales in the city

Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Lundblad, Joakim - 2015 - This version 2015-01-16

, positively contribute to productivity of firms. While localization economies appear to be bound to the immediate neighborhood …

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Neighborhood effects on productivity : a knowledge spillover analysis using geocoded data

Larsson, Johan P. - 2012 - JIBS Friday seminar draft, June, 1st, 2012, Unpublished manuscript

This paper exploits a geocoded, publicly audited, full population dataset on employment and wages in Sweden's city areas, to analyze the relationship between density of economic activity and individual wages. The analysis is based on 250-by-250 meter (about 0.15 miles), 1 km2, 9 km2 and 100 km2...

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Urban spatial structure and economic growth in Spanish metropolitan areas : 1992-2008

Alamá, Luisa; Roig-Casanova, Marta; Forte, Anabel; … - 2011

associated with higher productivity levels. In this context, this paper explores the links between urban spatial structure and …

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Explaining the productivity advantages of manufacturing firms in Russian urban agglomerations

Gončar, Ksenija R.; Ratnikova, Tatyana A. - 2013

This paper empirically analyzes the agglomeration-related productivity premium at the enterprise level of the … to consider firm, urban and regional heterogeneity and test two possible explanations of the productivity advantages of …. The results suggest that Russian plants in urban agglomerations enjoy 17-21% higher labor productivity. This gain arises …

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What makes cities more productive? : evidence from 5 OECD countries on the role of urban governance

Ahrend, Rudiger; Farchy, Emily; Kaplanis, Ioannis; … - 2016

that contrasts cross-country evidence on agglomeration benefits with the productivity impact of metropolitan governance … lower levels of productivity. The estimated elasticity for an increase in the number of local jurisdiction is 0.06, which is … literature that city productivity increases with city size with an elasticity in the range of 0.02 to 0.05. …

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Productivity spillovers through foreign transactions : the role of sector composition and local conditions

Cuadros Ramos, Ana María; Alguacil Marí, María Teresa - In: Emerging markets finance & trade : a journal of the … 50 (2014), pp. 75-88

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Types of FDI and determinants of affiliate size : the classification makes the difference

Hecht, Veronika; Moritz, Michael; Noska, Patricia; … - 2019

This paper focuses on the role of classifying types of foreign direct investment (FDI) for analyzing the determinants of cross-border investment relationships. We base our investigation on a newly established firm-level data set of German multinational firms and their affiliates in the Czech...

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Deciphering the effects of agglomeration economies on firms' productive efficiency

Skuras, Dimitrios; Tsekouras, Kostas; Dimara, Efthalia - 2011

The present work assess the effects of MAR and Jacob's type agglomeration economies on a sample of firms in the machineries and textiles industries in Greece for the periods 1989-91 and 1999-01. The analysis employs a stochastic production frontier function and allows agglomeration economies to...

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Labor density and productivity in Spain : evidence from geographically disaggregated data

Díaz Dapena, Alberto; Fernández Vázquez, Esteban; … - 2015

average labor productivity in one spatial unit on employment density and other controls. The novelty of our analysis is that … agglomeration in the conditional mean of labor productivity. Additionally, the QR and IVQR estimators find a progressively … decreasing, but still positive, effect of employment density along the conditional distribution of labor productivity. …

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