productivity of the Health Care Centers (HCC) of the Community of Madrid (Spain) in the period 2015-2017, with two important … has been scarcely analyzed. The main results reveal decreases in HC productivity due to the three proposed methodologies …

that combines evidence on agglomeration benefits and the productivity impact of metropolitan governance structures, while … rather than administrative boundaries. In line with the literature, the analysis confirms that city productivity increases … with city size but finds that cities with fragmented governance structures tend to have lower levels of productivity. This …

associated with higher productivity levels. In this context, this paper explores the links between urban spatial structure and …

that contrasts cross-country evidence on agglomeration benefits with the productivity impact of metropolitan governance … lower levels of productivity. The estimated elasticity for an increase in the number of local jurisdiction is 0.06, which is … literature that city productivity increases with city size with an elasticity in the range of 0.02 to 0.05. …