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Export induced spatial divergence
Casper, Jonas; Li, Lei; Luo, Jinfeng - 2023 - This version: October 2023
How does export liberalization affect firm location choice and the spatial concentration of economic activity? We address these questions using the geo-coordinates of Chinese manufacturing firms and find that export widens inter-city and intra-city spatial disparities by reinforcing initially...
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Closing the gap between absolute and relative measures of localization, concentration or specialization
Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt; Krieger-Boden, Christiane - 2010
localization can be expressed in terms of absolute and relative concentration and specialization measures. This helps understand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272103
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Start-up complexity and the thickness of regional input markets
Dohse, Dirk; Vaona, Andrea - 2013
Although there is a large and rapidly growing literature on the determinants of regional variation in new firm formation, relatively little is known about the interrelation between the characteristics of start-up firms and urban structure. It is only recently that scholars of urban economics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009761961
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Desperately Seeking Spillovers? : Increasing Returns, Industrial Organization and the Location of New Entrants in Geographic and Technological Space
S., Aharonson Barak - 2013
technologically specialized industrial micro-clusters, as well as factors reinforcing the significance of co-location for the creation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012711728
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Entrepreneurship : The Role of Clusters Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence from Germany
Rocha, Hector O.; Sternberg, Rolf - 2013
This paper is about the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship at the regional level. Defining entrepreneurship as the … creation of new organisations and clusters as a geographically proximate group of interconnected firms and associated … institutions in related industries, this paper aims to answer three research questions: first, do clusters matter to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014160113
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Knowledge and Knowledge Barriers
Ray, Jeffrey - 2015
This paper investigates spacial clustering of entrepreneurship and considers work advanced by David Andersson in the field. It assesses the influence that knowledge, in the form of insight, has on creating local economic opportunities, and relates how knowledge is used to advance the theory of...
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Spatial-temporal assessment of regional labor market differentiation
Dąbrowski, Ireneusz; Politaj, Adriana; Wicher, Joanna; … - In: International journal of management and economics 60 (2024) 2, pp. 77-88
The purpose of this article is a comparative analysis of regional and temporal labor market differentiation. In the study, the following voivodeships were taken as comparative objects. In accordance, following the administrative division, the voivodeships were adopted, while the research period...
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European integration and domestic regions: a numerical simulation analysis
Melchior, Arne (contributor) - 2009
Does European economic integration create more inequality between domestic regions, or is the opposite true? We show that a general answer to this question does not exist, and that the outcome depends on the liberalisation scenario. In order to examine the impact of European and international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003812175
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Determinants of spatial weights in spatial wage equations : a sensitivity analysis
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Feddersen, Arne - 2008
Recent empirical tests for a spatial wage structure have confirmed regional accessibility to be a significant determinant for income, although estimates vary considerably with respect to the geographic scope of estimated demand linkages. Our study is the first to estimate spatial demand linkages...
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Modelling the folk theorem : a spatial Cournot model with explicit increasing returns to scale/ Sylvain Barde
Barde, Sylvain (contributor) - 2007
This paper attempts to model directly the "folk theorem" of spatial economics, according to which increasing returns to scale are essential for understanding the geographical distributions of activity. The model uses the simple structure of most New Economic Geography papers, with two identical...
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