This study empirically establishes a link between medieval trade, agglomeration and contemporary regional development …; they also reveal a robust connection between medieval city growth and contemporary regional agglomeration and industry … indeed transmitted via its effect on agglomeration and industry concentration. This research thus highlights the long …

Economic research on industry location and agglomeration has focused nearly exclusively on manufacturing. This paper … traditional measures of knowledge spillovers, natural resource inputs, and labor pooling explain little of agglomeration in … services industries, this paper takes an alternative approach and looks at co-agglomeration to assess why industries cluster …

of inter- and intra-industry agglomeration as proxies of access with a newly developed gravity-based indicator … a sample of 110,083 German firms, provide evidence that agglomeration effects play an essential role in firms' location …

We examine the effects of urbanization and localization on four distinct types of innovation in manufacturing and … localization on different types of innovation. However, once we include firm fixed effects and distinguish between manufacturing … and services, only some weak indication for positive effects of localization on radical innovations of manufacturing firms …

the agglomeration patterns for agricultural cooperative system in France in 2005. We adopt a methodology allowing the … measurement of its degree of spatial agglomeration and the identification of its location patterns (Guillain and Le Gallo, 2008 … these measures provide different but complementary information about the spatial agglomeration of components of the French …