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Local knowledge spillovers and innovation persistence of firms
Holl, Adelheid; Peters, Bettina; Rammer, Christian - 2020
Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm’s innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known about potential contingencies affecting the degree of persistence. This paper focuses on the role of the local knowledge environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers...
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Urban cultural amenities and the migration of the creative class
Dalvai, Wilfried - 2016 - This version: March 2015
, financed by taxes, is introduced as an agglomeration force. The public-good is purely consumed by skilled workers. Additionally …
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Malthus living in a slum : urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David - 2014 - (Preliminary version)
Today more than half of the 7 billion inhabitants of the planet live in urban areas, with this share expected to keep rising. Whereas in developed countries urbanisation has been a long and slow process, in developing countries this process is now characterised by a really fast pace and a high...
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An empirical investigation of socio-economic impacts of agglomeration economies in major cities of Punjab, Pakistan
Ghafoor, Naghmana; Fayyaz, Sana; Nisa, Mehrun; Akbar, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-23
Agglomeration economies are the external benefits earned from clustering of industries and people in cities. The study … empirically investigates the heterogeneous socioeconomic impacts of agglomeration economies in selected cities of Punjab, Pakistan …, from 1998 to 2018, using the Pooled Mean Group and the Mean Group techniques of Panel ARDL. Agglomeration economies are …
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An ever-looser union? : juxtaposing accumulation and agglomeration in the context of surveillance capitalism
Kleinod, Sonja; Klüh, Ulrich - 2020 - This version: 22.07.20
The article explores regional policy issues at the nexus of economic geography and the recent academic literature on the political economy of digitalization. The objective is to blend these two areas of research to derive a first set of preliminary policy implications for so called "Smart...
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Chapter 6. Agglomeration and Innovation
Carlino, Gerald; Kerr, William R. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 349-404). 2015
This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the …
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Dutch Disease or Agglomeration? The Local Economic Effects of Natural Resource Booms in Modern America
Allcott, Hunt; Keniston, Daniel - 2016
Do natural resources benefit producer economies, or is there a "Natural Resource Curse," perhaps as Dutch Disease crowds out manufacturing? We combine new data on oil and gas abundance with Census of Manufactures microdata to estimate how oil and gas booms have affected local economies in the...
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Insurance against local productivity shocks
Pérez-Cervantes, Fernando - 2016
I slightly modify the model of Monte et al. (2015) to estimate how workers in Mexican municipalities choose the location of their workplace based on the income gains from commuting to another municipality. Estimates are in line with the intuition: Static estimates for both 2010 and 2015 suggest...
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Productivity growth in Chinese cities : the agglomeration effect for cross-regional industrial structures
Ge, Yuanjun; Chang, Fa-Hsiang - In: Theoretical and applied economics : GAER review 28 (2021) 4/629, pp. 91-104
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Regional GDP in Mexico, 1895-2010
Aguilar Retureta, José; Badia-Miró, Marc; Herranz … - In: Time and space : Latin American regional development in …, (pp. 211-239). 2020
analysing the case of Mexico from 1895 to 2010. Economic differences among Mexican regions are substantial and have been … may have different trends and determinants from those of the industrialized economies. In the case of Mexico, regional … activity in Mexico City and a clear division between the rich North and the poor South. By contrast, the period from 1940 to …
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