findings. We detect local productivity advantages for both UA and ID. However, firms located in UA attain a larger Total Factor …In this paper we compare the magnitude of local productivity advantages associated to two different spatial … small firms producing relatively homogenous goods. We use a very large sample of Italian manufacturing firms observed over …

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 …

Wirtschaftspolitik und ihr soll in dieser Arbeit nachgegangen werden. -- export-led growth ; trade ; productivity ; firm heterogeneity …

that contrasts cross-country evidence on agglomeration benefits with the productivity impact of metropolitan governance … lower levels of productivity. The estimated elasticity for an increase in the number of local jurisdiction is 0.06, which is … literature that city productivity increases with city size with an elasticity in the range of 0.02 to 0.05. …