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This paper exploits a geocoded, publicly audited, full population dataset on employment and wages in Sweden's city areas, to analyze the relationship between density of economic activity and individual wages. The analysis is based on 250-by-250 meter (about 0.15 miles), 1 km2, 9 km2 and 100 km2...
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to influence productivity. To this end we estimate plant-level production functions augmented by regional characteristics …
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and industries. All these effects have the potential to increase the productivity (and profitability) of firms. Whereas …
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This paper is one of the first attempts to utilize the theoretical framework of the new economic geography for explaining agricultural land prices. We adopt a model proposed by Pflüger and Tabuchi (2010), which allows to consider land as a production factor. We derive a short-run equilibrium...
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We analyze the effect of the Öresund Bridge, a combined railway and motorway bridge between Swedish Malmö and the Danish capital Copenhagen, on inventive activity in the region of Malmö. Applying difference-in-difference estimation on individual-level data, our findings suggest that the...
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We examine the effects of urbanization and localization on four distinct types of innovation in manufacturing and … spatial sorting is important. A large portion of the regional differences in firm innovation rates is due to firm … localization on different types of innovation. However, once we include firm fixed effects and distinguish between manufacturing …
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