This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the effects of agglomeration and road accessibility on … period by using a market potential variable. Additionally, agglomeration is approached by employment density and we control …

We use Japanese prefectural wage and land price data to estimate the magnitude of agglomeration effects in … manufacturing and finance. We also examine the range of agglomeration effects by estimating the extent to which they diminish with … distance, using a specification that encompasses the polar cases of purely local agglomeration economies, on the one hand, and …