fragmentation and productivity, and represents the first empirical analysis of how metropolitan governance structures affect this … fragmented governance structures tend to have lower levels of productivity. For a given population size, a metropolitan area with …This paper estimates agglomeration benefits based on city productivity differentials across five OECD countries …

that contrasts cross-country evidence on agglomeration benefits with the productivity impact of metropolitan governance … rather than administrative boundaries. The analysis finds that cities with fragmented governance structures tend to have … lower levels of productivity. The estimated elasticity for an increase in the number of local jurisdiction is 0.06, which is …

the relative importance of national, regional and spatial factors for explaining variations of productivity. Our analysis … shows that initial economic conditions or agglomeration and centrality are indeed relevant for differences in productivity … levels. What is far more important, however, is which country a region belongs to. Productivity differences in the European …