fragmentation and productivity, and represents the first empirical analysis of how metropolitan governance structures affect this … fragmented governance structures tend to have lower levels of productivity. For a given population size, a metropolitan area with …This paper estimates agglomeration benefits based on city productivity differentials across five OECD countries …

This paper uses highly disaggregate data to study the impact of a new metro on firm productivity. The planned-route IV … within 750 meters to stations aggregate value added, mean firm productivity and the number of local units increase. Areas … between 1250 and 2000 meters experience a decrease in the number of local units but mean firm productivity does not change …

of Great Britain. The potentially two-way causality between agglomeration and productivity is dealt with using two …