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The economic microgeography of diversity and specialization
Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Wernberg, Joakim - 2017
-standing question whether agglomeration economies derive from specialization (within-industry) or diversity (between-industry). We show …. There are robust positive effects of diversity and specialization on firms' TFP growth at the local within-city neighborhood … level, especially for firms in high-tech and knowledge-intensive activities. While specialization effects are bound to the …
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The early development of new establishments : an evaluation of the role of spatial selection and agglomeration
Changoluisa, Javier - 2021
This paper analyzes the early development of new establishments evaluating the role of spatial selection and agglomeration. The analysis shows a clear and strong selection of more productive new establishments into larger regions, regardless of the foundation type. While at the end of the...
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Urban specialisation : from sectoral to functional
Antoine, Antoine; Markusen, James R.; Venables, Anthony - 2021
to cities developing a pattern of sectoral specialization, and the latter a pattern of functional specialization. This … predictions of the model are consistent with changes in the pattern of specialization in the US over recent decades. The model … insights, including that, as costs of remote sourcing fall, cities’ functional specialization tends to increase and their …
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A nonparametric test for industrial specialization
Billings, Stephen B.; Johnson, Erik - 2012
indices (e.g. Gini, Herfindahl). As shown by recent advances in how we measure localization and specialization, these measures … firm location. Extending recent work by [S. Billings & E. Johnson. 2012. A Nonparametric Test for Industrial Specialization …. Journal of Urban Economics. 71(3):312-331.], we develop a nonparametric microdata based test for industrial co-specialization …
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Agglomeration and Markup
Lu, Yi; Tao, Zhigang; Yu, Linhui - 2012
Agglomeration brings costs (e.g., intensified local competition) as well as benefits (e.g., knowledge spillover). It is important to examine the net impact of agglomeration to understand the geographic distribution of economic activities. In this study, we use firm markup (defined as the ratio...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014169339
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Close, But Not the Same : Locally Headquartered Organizations and Agglomeration Economies in a Declining Industry
Audia, Pino G.; Rider, Christopher I. - 2012
Departing from research on expanding, high-technology industries, we study the impact of agglomeration in a declining, low-technology industry. The setting is U.S. footwear manufacturing between 1975 and 1991, when import competition rendered local support critical for survival. We examine how...
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Grid and shake - spatial aggregation and robustness of regionally estimated elasticities
Békés, Gábor; Harasztosi, Péter - 2015
This paper proposes a simple method measuring spatial robustness of estimated coefficients and considers the role of administrative districts and regions' size. The procedure, dubbed "Grid and Shake", offers a solution for a practical empirical issue, when one compares a variables of interest...
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Geographic concentration, observational equivalence and the source of industrial agglomeration
Wren, Colin M. - 2010
Ellison and Glaeser's (1997) index of geographical concentration distinguishes between natural advantages and spillovers as a source of industrial agglomeration, but the well-known 'observational equivalence' means little is known about the relative importance of these. This paper uses the...
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Analysis of industrial agglomeration patterns : an application to manufacturing industries in Japan
Mori, Tomoya; Smith, Tony E. - 2012
The standard approach to studying industrial agglomeration is to construct summary measures of the degree of agglomerationʺ within each industry and to test for significant agglomeration with respect to some appropriate reference measures. But such summary measures often fail to distinguish...
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Agglomeration economies and urban productivity
Torres Gutierrez, Tania Paola; Ordóñez, Jessica Andrea - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 6 (2019) 1, pp. 17-24
This study explores the relationship between agglomeration economies and industrial productivity between 1980 and 2010 in Ecuador. The measure of productivity used is labour productivity. We conclude that urbanization economies have a positive impact on productivity in the period analyzed.
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