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When are localization and urbanization economies important? : evidence from the location of new firms
Jofre-Monseny, Jordi; Marín-López, Raquel; Viladecans … - 2012
The objective of this paper is to analyze the influence of industry characteristics on the localization and urbanization agglomeration patterns of new firm location. To this end, we analyze the location decisions of new manufacturing firms in Spain. First, for a 3-digit level, we identify for...
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What Underlies Localization and Urbanization Economies? Evidence from the Location of New Firms
Jofre-Monseny, Jordi - 2015
The objective of this paper is to analyze why firms in some industries locate in specialized economic environments (localization economies) while those in other industries prefer large city locations (urbanization economies). To this end, we examine the location decisions of new manufacturing...
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Does the crisis change the nature of agglomeration economies in Indonesia? : a productivity analysis of pre-post 1997-1998 financial crisis
Khoirunurrofik - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 7 (2020) 2, pp. 85-106
By examining their source and magnitude, this paper looked at the changes in the nature of Indonesia’s agglomeration economies over three distinct, successive periods: the pre-crisis boom (1990-1996), the deep crisis (1997-2000), and the post-crisis recovery (2001-2010). We found that...
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How important are agglomeration effects for plant performance? : empirical evidence for Germany
Fuchs, Michaela; Ludewig, Oliver - 2010 - Preliminary version
The question whether agglomeration effects are of importance for regional development has a long tradition in regional science. This paper asks if regional characteristics and specifically ag-glomeration effects influence the performance of plants in Germany and, if so, in which direction....
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Why geographic dispersion before its time : industrial policy and economic geography in the People's Republic of China
Wu, Yiyun; Zhu, Xiwei - 2017
This paper investigates the trends and determinants of geographic concentration and industrial specialization in the …, both geographic concentration and industrial specialization began to decrease, resulting in an increased similarity of … specialization. The result is robust when using instrumental variables to deal with possible reverse causality and omitted variable …
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The economic microgeography of diversity and specialization
Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Wernberg, Joakim - 2017
-standing question whether agglomeration economies derive from specialization (within-industry) or diversity (between-industry). We show …. There are robust positive effects of diversity and specialization on firms' TFP growth at the local within-city neighborhood … level, especially for firms in high-tech and knowledge-intensive activities. While specialization effects are bound to the …
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The early development of new establishments : an evaluation of the role of spatial selection and agglomeration
Changoluisa, Javier - 2021
This paper analyzes the early development of new establishments evaluating the role of spatial selection and agglomeration. The analysis shows a clear and strong selection of more productive new establishments into larger regions, regardless of the foundation type. While at the end of the...
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Agglomeration and Productivity : Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - 2011
Do agglomerations stimulate productivity? An extensive literature on agglomeration economies, or urban increasing returns, has analyzed this question with aggregated spatial data. This paper estimates the relationship between agglomeration and productivity at the firm level using static and...
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Industrial specialization or diversity? : how high-speed rail fosters Japan's regional agglomeration economy
Wetwitoo, Jetpan - 2019
In this paper, the relationship between high-speed rail (HSR) and agglomeration economy in the scope of specialization … and diversity is investigated. The main objective is to answer two questions: first, to determine whether specialization … or diversity promotes economic productivity, and second, to determine whether HSR promotes specialization or diversity …
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The determinants of agglomeration redux
Behrens, Kristian; Brown, W. Mark; Bougna, Théophile - 2013 - Preliminary and incomplete
We study the determinants of agglomeration of Canadian manufacturing industries from 1990 to 2009. In so doing, we revisit the seminal contribution by Rosenthal and Strange (2001, "The determinants of agglomeration", J Urban Econ 50(2), 191-229) using a long panel and continuous measures of...
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