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Urban size and KIBS vertical disintegration : evidence from Lombardy
Antonietti, Roberto; Cainelli, Giulio - 2012
-intensive business services (KIBS), as a primary source of knowledge creation and diffusion. Since this transferring process often occurs … almost 17.000 KIBS firms located in Lombardy over the period 2004-2009, and we estimate both a first difference and an … short-run variations in the degree of vertical disintegration of KIBS, while controlling for potential endogeneity issues …
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Spatial concentration of Indian service industries in rural and urban areas : a micro-unit-level analysis
Agarwal, Sugam; Ranjan Behera, Smruti - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-19
examine knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) industries' spatial concentration patterns and geographical concentration … concentration effect varies in rural and urban areas. Further, empirical results reveal that KIBS industries are localized in rural … suggest that urban planners and district municipal authorities can give more emphasis and implement suitable KIBS industry …
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Agglomeration Externalities in Ecuador. Do Urbanisation and Tertiarisation Matter?
Working Paper Series, GATE - 2018
The paper investigates whether the tertiarisation and the rapid urbanisation faced by developing countries favour agglomeration economies. Focusing on Ecuadorian cantons, a productivity equation is estimated using the GMM model with instruments controlling for endogeneity. The varying impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911348
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Agglomeration externalities and urbanization in Ecuador
Guevara, Carolina; Riou, Stéphane; Autant-Bernard, Corinne - 2015 - This version: September, 2015
The spatial agglomeration of economic activities play a crucial role on productivity but the composition of such an agglomeration is what really matters. There exists an ongoing debate between the predominance of the effects of agglomeration from specialization and diversity. This paper aims to...
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The intrametropolitan geography of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) : a comparative analysis of six European and U.S. city-regions
Ávila Serrano, Vicente Romero de - In: Economic development quarterly : the journal of … 33 (2019) 4, pp. 279-295
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Gig and independent work in US metropolitan economies and service industries
Harpel, Ellen - In: European review of service economics and management (2020) 1/9, pp. 153-176
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Regional investment under uncertain costs of location
Broll, Udo; Roldán-Ponce, Antonio; Wahl, Jack E. - 2012
Due to globalization competitive firms face increasing economic opportunities for locating their activities in countries, regions and cities that provide the best business environment for their specific needs. In our study we focus on the impact of economic risk and risk preferences upon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308305
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Labor market pooling, outsourcing and labor contracts
Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2009
Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265995
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Labor market pooling, outsourcing and labor contracts
Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2009
Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269616
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Political Institutionalisation and Economic Specialisation in Polycentric Metropolitan Regions – The Case of the East-German ‘Saxony Triangle’
Franz, Peter; Hornych, Christoph - 2009
The rising attention of politicians as well as scientists in the EU to the large urban agglomerations as centres of economic growth is accompanied by political efforts to identify and to demarcate such agglomerations under the label 'metropolitan regions'. This study develops a theoretical...
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