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Urban size and KIBS vertical disintegration: Evidence from Lombardy
Antonietti, Roberto; Cainelli, Giulio - 2012
-intensive business services (KIBS), as a primary source of knowledge creation and diffusion. Since this transferring process often occurs … almost 17.000 KIBS firms located in Lombardy over the period 2004-2009, and we estimate both a first difference and an … short-run variations in the degree of vertical disintegration of KIBS, while controlling for potential endogeneity issues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340816
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Urban size and KIBS vertical disintegration : evidence from Lombardy
Antonietti, Roberto; Cainelli, Giulio - 2012
-intensive business services (KIBS), as a primary source of knowledge creation and diffusion. Since this transferring process often occurs … almost 17.000 KIBS firms located in Lombardy over the period 2004-2009, and we estimate both a first difference and an … short-run variations in the degree of vertical disintegration of KIBS, while controlling for potential endogeneity issues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011512739
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The Births of New Private-Owned Enterprises in an Environment of State-Owned Enterprises
Zhao, Zhong; Zheng, Liang - 2023
The impact of the incumbent state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the births of new private-owned enterprises (POEs) in China is a central concern for the government and society. In this paper, we apply agglomeration theories to distinguish the linkages between SOEs and POEs. Using China's 2008...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377162
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Modeling services sectors' agglomeration within a new economic geography model
Krenz, Astrid - 2012
This study investigates whether services sectors' agglomeration can be explained within a common New Economic Geography model by Krugman and Venables (1996). Special feature of this modeling is to account for the lower importance of intermediate goods received for the services sector, a fact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311677
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Modeling services sectors' agglomeration within a new economic geography model
Krenz, Astrid - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2012
This study investigates whether services sectors' agglomeration can be explained within a common New Economic Geography model by Krugman and Venables (1996). Special feature of this modeling is to account for the lower importance of intermediate goods received for the services sector, a fact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954384
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The births of new private-owned enterprises in an environment of state-owned enterprises
Zhao, Zhong; Liang, Zheng - 2023
The impact of the incumbent state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the births of new private-owned enterprises (POEs) in China is a central concern for the government and society. In this paper, we apply agglomeration theories to distinguish the linkages between SOEs and POEs. Using China's 2008...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014310232
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Agglomeration and Co-Agglomeration of Services Industries
Kolko, Jed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Economic research on industry location and agglomeration has focused nearly exclusively on manufacturing. This paper shows that services are prominent among the most agglomerated industries, especially at the county level. Because traditional measures of knowledge spillovers, natural resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790058
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Agglomeration, regional grants and firm location
Devereux, Michael P.; Griffith, Rachel; Simpson, Helen - 2004
We examine whether discretionary government grants influence the location of new plants, and how effective these incentives are in the presence of agglomeration and urbanisation externalities. We find evidence that regional industrial structure affects the location of new entrants. Firms in more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293053
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Assessing the Localization Pattern of German Manufacturing & Service Industries - A Distance Based Approach
Koh, Hyun-Ju; Riedel, Nadine - 2009
This paper assesses the agglomeration pattern of four-digit industries in Germany using a rich data set on the population of German firms. To identify geographical agglomeration, we follow the distance based approach of Duranton and Overman (2005) and find that the location pattern of 78% of our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294721
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Inefficient lock-in and subsidy competition
Borck, Rainald; Koh, Hyun-Ju; Pflüger, Michael - 2009
This paper shows that subsidy competition may be efficiency enhancing. We model a subsidy game among two asymmetric regions in a new trade model, where capital can freely move among regions, but capital rewards are repatriated. We study subsidy competition, starting from an equilibrium where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294734