We estimate a model of urban productivity in which the agglomeration effect of density is enhanced by a metropolitan … area’s stock of human capital. Estimation accounts for potential biases due to the endogeneity of density and industrial … accounts for the spatial distribution of population, we find that a doubling of density increases productivity by 2 to 4 …

This paper estimates agglomeration benefits based on city productivity differentials across five OECD countries … (Germany, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States). It highlights the relationship between cities’ governmental … fragmentation and productivity, and represents the first empirical analysis of how metropolitan governance structures affect this …

economy. The study focuses on five categories of firms: knowledge-intensive and ordinary business services, knowledge …

contribution from coastal proximity to productivity and quality of life. Extensively controlling for correlated natural attributes … productivity or quality of life, but not to both, suggests that the coastal concentration derives primarily from a productivity …

Germany's bank-based system of internal control, ownership concentration is harmful for productivity growth. …Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in … empirical evidence is sparse, in particular at the level of individual firms. In this paper, we aim to close this gap with an …

technique to locate and measure agglomerations of high-growth, high-tech (HGHT) startup activity within 205 U.S. cities. Using …