terms of productivity than non-traders when agglomeration rises. Firms that are stable participants of international trade … gain 16 % in terms of total factor productivity growth as agglomeration doubles while non-traders may not benefit from … agglomeration at all. Results also suggest that traders' productivity premium is most apparent in urbanised economies. …

terms of productivity than non-traders when agglomeration rises. Firms that are stable participants of international trade … gain 16 % in terms of total factor productivity growth as agglomeration doubles while non-traders may not benefit from … agglomeration at all. Results also suggest that traders' productivity premium is most apparent in urbanised economies …

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 …

agglomeration economies, i.e. we examine whether firms share risks from idiosyncratic and sector specific shocks through labor … employment shocks. Both findings provide evidence that labor pooling matters as a source of agglomeration economies by allowing …, suggesting that agglomeration costs exceed the benefits from risk sharing. -- Marshallian Externalities ; Labor Pooling …

spatial agglomeration, as the standard Dixit-Stiglitz (1977) - Krugman(1980) framework, all the variability in these measures … by) concentration and agglomeration patterns according to a size-related basis. These results therefore cast some doubt …