regional hierarchy into account in an examination of the market size-productivity relationship for retailers. …This paper investigates the determinants of the productivity of independent retail stores in Sweden by focusing on the … impact of market size and regional hierarchy while controlling for several store and employee characteristics over time. The …

We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our …. Our results suggest that local government decentralization matters differently for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan … counties. -- Fiscal decentralization ; metropolitan ; nonmetropolitan ; population ; employment ; income ; spatial econometrics …

We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our …. Our results suggest that local government decentralization matters differently for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan …