This paper estimates agglomeration benefits based on city productivity differentials across five OECD countries (Germany, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States). It highlights the relationship between cities’ governmental fragmentation and productivity, and represents the first...

Im Jahr 1932 hat der spätere Politologe Arnold Brecht postuliert, dass ein positiver Zusammenhang zwischen Bevölkerungsmassierung und Staatsausgaben besteht. In diesem Beitrag wird untersucht, ob mehr als 75 Jahre später dieser Zusammenhang immer noch gilt. Während Brecht nur die Effekte von...

In urban renewal policy, it has become a widespread goal to revitalise neighbourhood economies. The rationale for these measures derives, to a great extent, from the concept of regional economic clusters, and, not surprisingly, one of their key objectives is to activate local inter-firm...

The tertiarization, or perhaps more accurately, the deindustrialization of the economy has left deep scars on cities. It is evident not only in the industrial wastelands and empty factory buildings scattered throughout the urban landscape, but also in the income and social structures of cities....