the recent emphasis on agglomeration effects and divergence. The population flows to urban centers do not generate growth …

not possible to define as random. Indeed, countries have faced a strong tendency toward agglomeration, namely population … gathers within proper areas like cities, and currently the agglomeration within cities "is an extremely complex amalgam of … the hierarchical structure of the cities within the EU Member States with particular attention on agglomeration forces by …

This paper examines the empirical relationship between agglomeration and economic growth for a panel of 48 Central and … Eastern European regions from 1995 to 2006. By agglomeration, we mean the within-regional concentration of aggregate economic … for endogeneity and spatial dependence. Our empirical analysis provides evidence of a positive effect of agglomeration as …

-linear, inverted U-shape effect of agglomeration on productivity growth but in levels agglomeration is associated with higher …

City), pushed by agglomeration economies in industry. Finally, since the mid-1980s divergence has been mainly driven by …

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 … regional agglomeration effects for Germany. Second, while earlier papers looked only at few sectors of the economy or only at …

of regions and industries in New and Old European economies by investigating the effects of local agglomeration …