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 …

This paper analyzes the effects of geographical proximity and agglomeration of FDIs (foreign direct investments) on … evidence in Central and Eastern Europe of the effects of geographical proximity and agglomeration on the productivity of … analysis, using original panel data from 1990 to 2006, provides evidence that the agglomeration of FDIs has a negative and …

This paper analyzes the effects of geographical proximity and agglomeration of FDIs (foreign direct investments) on … evidence in Central and Eastern Europe of the effects of geographical proximity and agglomeration on the productivity of … analysis, using original panel data from 1990 to 2006, provides evidence that the agglomeration of FDIs has a negative and …

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 … known about agglomeration economies in Germany, where interregional support policy and the characteristics of the federal …