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Urban Agglomerations and Firm Access to Credit
Carmignani, Amanda - 2019
The paper investigates whether firms have better access to bank credit in areas with a larger degree of urbanization. It uses bank-firm data drawn from the Credit Register maintained at the Bank of Italy to devise an indicator of ease of access to credit. The paper proposes an instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864913
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Local Government Taxes and Long-Run Economic Growth in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Stansel, Dean; Swaleheen, Mushfiq - 2008
This paper explores the factors that contribute to long-run economic growth in U.S. metropolitan areas, with particular attention given to government finance variables. Unlike previous work that examines only a sub-sample of the largest areas, this paper uses a new comprehensive data set for all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212102
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Cities with forking paths? : agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976-2018
Donovan, Stuart; Graaff, Thomas de; Grimes, Arthur L.; … - 2021
, however, estimates have remained broadly stable. Our results reveal more significant spatial variation: Large cities offer net … benefits in production, but not in consumption, whereas small locations close to large cities ("satellites") experience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650158
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Does successful innovation require large urban areas? : Germany as a counterexample
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2020
Popular theories claim that innovation activities should be located in large cities because of more favorable … environmental conditions that are absent in smaller cities or remote and rural areas. Germany provides a clear counterexample to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167186
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Unravelling urban advantages : a meta-analysis of agglomeration economies
Donovan, Stuart; Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L. F. de; … - 2021
A large body of literature considers the productive advantages of cities, or "agglomeration economies". Most empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491783
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Poverty, population growth and agglomeration effects in all Brazil cities
Marques, André de Mattos - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 24 (2023) 2, pp. 249-263
in Brazil and exploring a rich spatial dataset for 5,564 Brazilian cities observed between 1991 and 2010. The large … is for poverty reduction, the patterns of agglomeration and population growth in all Brazilian cities. Design …/methodology/approach The author identifies literature gaps and use a sizeable spatial dataset for 5,564 Brazilian cities observed in 1991, 2000 …
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Productivity gains from agglomeration and migration in the People's Republic of China between 2002 and 2013
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - In: Asian development review 34 (2017) 2, pp. 184-200
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Fiscal gaps in amalgamated metropolitan areas : the case of Turin and Genoa
Chernick, Howard A.; Piazza, Santino - In: Economia pubblica : the Italian journal of public … 43 (2016) 1, pp. 137-171
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Entrepreneurship as an urban event? : empirical evidence from European cities
Bosma, Niels; Sternberg, Rolf G. - In: Regional studies 48 (2014) 6, pp. 1016-1033
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An outline of the new government policy for Russian cities and urban agglomerations
Popov, R. A.; Puzanov, A. S.; Polidi, T. D. - In: Problems of economic transition 62 (2020) 7/9, pp. 622-634
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