that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firm-worker matching process. Our method makes use of recent …

extent to which entrants in Ohio were attracted to the Akron area by agglomeration benefits, contributing to a self … fueled the agglomeration of the industry there. …

that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firm-worker matching process. Our method makes use of recent …. -- agglomeration ; matching ; fixed-effects …

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 …

This paper examines the empirical relationship between agglomeration and economic growth for a panel of 48 Central and … Eastern European regions from 1995 to 2006. By agglomeration, we mean the within-regional concentration of aggregate economic … for endogeneity and spatial dependence. Our empirical analysis provides evidence of a positive effect of agglomeration as …

of geography. After controlling for agglomeration economies and the interaction effect of geography and agglomeration …

We examine “agglomeration shadows” that emerge around large cities, which discourage some economic activities in nearby … areas. Identifying agglomeration shadows is complicated, however, by endogenous city formation and \wave interference" that … estimate agglomeration shadows cast on nearby areas. We find that empirically, as in the simulations, detectable agglomeration …

The question whether agglomeration effects are of importance for regional development has a long tradition in regional … science. This paper asks if regional characteristics and specifically ag-glomeration effects influence the performance of … regional agglomeration effects for Germany. Second, while earlier papers looked only at few sectors of the economy or only at …