We use the model developed by Murphy, Shleifer and Vishny (1991) to examine the causal relationship between institutions as measured by economic freedom and industry employment, and then given the causality, examine how the amount of employment in these causal industries influences economic...

Traditional measures of spatial industry concentration are restricted to given areal units. They do not make allowance for the fact that concentration may be differently pronounced at various geographical levels. Methods of spatial point pattern analysis allow to measure industry concentration...