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This study examines the impact of localization and urbanization economies as well as the impact of city size on urban growth in German cities from 2003 to 2007. Although, from a theoretical perspective, agglomeration economies are supposed to have positive impacts on regional growth, prior...
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This paper aims to find evidence for the positive impact of cluster structures on employment development in Germany. It develops a new way of measuring the co-location of suppliers and buyers of intermediate goods in a region as well as the importance for the employment development in individual...
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. By virtue of the linkage between growth and innovation, R&D intensive industries play a crucial role in cluster …
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This paper analyzes the effect of agglomeration economies on firms' total factor productivity. We propose the use of a control function approach to overcome the econometric issue inherent to the two-stage approach commonly used in the literature. Estimations are conducted separately for four...
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This paper analyzes the effect of agglomeration economies on firms’ total factor productivity. We propose the use of a control function approach to overcome the econometric issue inherent to the two-stage approach commonly used in the literature. Estimations are conducted separately for four...
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way clusters can positively affect competition by increasing productivity and innovation. Because of the linkage between … growth and innovation, R&D intensive industries play a crucial role in cluster development strategies. Empirical cluster … industries with high innovation activity tend to cluster for exploiting benefits from tacit knowledge flows. Krugman stresses …
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Using patent citation data for the U.S., we test whether knowledge spillovers in biotechnology are sensitive to …
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We investigate the impact of trade integration between Canada and the United States on the degree of industrial specialization of the Canadian regions. Trade integration is captured through the decrease of trade-weighted tariffs that was boosted by the implementation of the Canadian-U.S. Free...
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