The question whether agglomeration effects are of importance for regional development has a long tradition in regional … science. This paper asks if regional characteristics and specifically ag-glomeration effects influence the performance of … regional agglomeration effects for Germany. Second, while earlier papers looked only at few sectors of the economy or only at …

cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote … a generalised version of a tractable firm selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the …

China is a central concern for the government and society. In this paper, we apply agglomeration theories to distinguish the … i census, we measure the formation of new POEs at the city-industry level, and the agglomeration forces of distance … downstream SOEs are concentrated. However, the agglomeration effects from the incumbent POEs are either insignificant or …

China is a central concern for the government and society. In this paper, we apply agglomeration theories to distinguish the … census, we measure the formation of new POEs at the city-industry level, and the agglomeration forces of distance proximity … downstream SOEs are concentrated. However, the agglomeration effects from the incumbent POEs are either insignificant or …