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Factors explaining the spatial agglomeration of the creative class : empirical evidence for German artists
Alfken, Christoph; Brökel, Tom; Sternberg, Rolf G. - 2013
The paper contributes to the ongoing debate about the relative importance of economic and amenity-related location factors for attracting talents or members of the creative class. While Florida highlights the role of amenities, openness, and tolerance, others instead emphasize the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303799
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Firm growth and the spatial impact of geolocated external factors : empirical evidence for German manufacturing firms
Duschl, Matthias; Schimke, Antje; Brenner, Thomas; … - 2011
In this paper the relationship between firm growth and external knowledge sources, such as related firms and universities, is studied. The spatial characteristics of these relationships are examined by geolocating firms into a more realistic relational space using travel time distances and using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303836
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Urban Growth in Germany – The Impact of Localization and Urbanization Economies
Illy, Annette; Hornych, Christoph; Schwartz, Michael; … - 2009
growth in German cities from 2003 to 2007. Although, from a theoretical perspective, agglomeration economies are supposed to … known about agglomeration economies in Germany, where interregional support policy and the characteristics of the federal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271397
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Agglomeration of knowledge in the German regional economy
Krenz, Astrid - 2016
This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German economy. Our analysis takes individual-level data from the German socioeconomic panel (GSOEP) and combines them with the knowledge information for different jobs that comes from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436802
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Regional determinants of new business formation in China : prefecture-level evidence
Borowiecki, Martin; Leitner, Karl-Heinz - 2015 - Draft version
Using a panel data model, we study the effects of regional and industry-level traits on new business formation (NBF) for 164 industries across 266 Chinese prefectures between 1998 and 2007. The objective is to provide empirical estimates on effects of prefecture traits on entry rates, and in...
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The impact of production intensity on agricultural land prices
Grau, Aaron; Jasic, Svetlana; Ritter, Matthias; … - Agricultural Land Markets - Efficiency and Regulation - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018821
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How Important is Geography for Agglomeration?
Roos, Michael W. M. - 2010
of geography. After controlling for agglomeration economies and the interaction effect of geography and agglomeration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760804
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Spatial sorting of innovative firms and heterogeneous effects of agglomeration on innovation in Germany
Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Peters, Jan Cornelius; Schmidke, Alex - 2019 - Revised version: June 1, 2019
We examine the effects of urbanization and localization on four distinct types of innovation in manufacturing and services. Furthermore, estimating multilevel panel regression models, we investigate the sorting of highly innovative firms into dense urban regions by considering both observable...
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How important are agglomeration effects for plant performance? : empirical evidence for Germany
Fuchs, Michaela; Ludewig, Oliver - 2010 - Preliminary version
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539710
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Long-term growth determinants of young businesses in Germany : effects of regional concentration and specialisation
Otto, Anne; Fornahl, Dirk - 2008
Agglomeration die Wachstumsquoten neu gegründeter Unternehmen leicht verringern. In stärkerem Ausmaß wird dieser Effekt in Bezug auf …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873951