key insight that emerges is that the interaction between agglomeration economies and comparative advantage involves a … comparative advantage in sectors governed by this force whilst the impact of agglomeration economies is enhanced by trade cost … small economies is not only shaped by the primitives that determine agglomeration economies and comparative advantage but …

This study explores the relationship between agglomeration economies and industrial productivity between 1980 and 2010 …

This paper empirically analyzes the agglomeration-related productivity premium at the enterprise level of the … manufacturing industry in Russia. A settlement is counted as part of an urban agglomeration in two cases: that of a large, central … as a result of urbanization and external scale economy - the agglomeration of firms belonging to different industries at …

the areas where they operate. Quantifying these agglomeration elasticities is of central importance in the evaluation of … the wider economic benefits of transport investments. We estimate agglomeration elasticities using the Statistics New … present separate estimates of agglomeration elasticities for specific industries and regions, and examine the interaction of …

This paper presents a simple Chamberlinian agglomeration model which, like the canonical core-periphery (CP) model … complete agglomeration predicted by the CP model. …

Standard approaches to studying industrial agglomeration have been in terms of scalar measures of agglomeration within … each industry. But such measures often fail to distinguish spatial scales of agglomeration. In a previous paper, Mori and … agglomeration based on an explicit method for detecting spatial clusters. The first, designated as the global extent of industrial …

This paper estimates agglomeration benefits across five OECD countries, and represents the first empirical analysis … that combines evidence on agglomeration benefits and the productivity impact of metropolitan governance structures, while …

workers are not able to take full advantage of the benefits from agglomeration economies. China is changing rapidly, however … institutional limitations in China against further agglomeration weaken, and that the consensus in the literature that "Chinese …