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Self-reinforcing Agglomerations? An empirical industry study
Knarvik, K.H.M.; Steen, F. - Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) - 1997
The occurence of agglomerations raises several questions: How come that economic activity is agglomerated instead of evenly spread out across space? What implications do agglomerations have for welfare (earnings, employment, etc.) and economic policy? How do increased globalisation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487124
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Economies of Scale in European Manufacturing Revisited
Henriksen, Espen; Steen, Frode; Ulltveit-Moe, Karen-Helene - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
We test for internal and external economies of scale in European manufacturing, employing a more disaggregated data set … than has been used in earlier analyses. We aim to separate externalities from common business cycle effects. Fifteen … European manufacturing industries in Germany, France, the UK and Italy are analysed. We focus on economies of scale at three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667100
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Trade Liberalization and the Geography of Production: Agglomeration, Concentration and Dispersal in Indonesia’s Manufacturing Industry
Sjöberg, Örjan; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2002
lead to increased regional inequalities. We examine the spatial concentration of manufacturing in Indonesia between 1980 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649272
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External economies at the firm level : evidence from Swedish manufacturing
Lindström, Tomas - 1999
Using the method of Caballero and Lyons (1990, 1992), I examine detailed Swedish manufacturing firm-level data on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584498
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The economic microgeography of diversity and specialization
Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Wernberg, Joakim - 2017
that these two types of externalities co-exist, but differ in their spatial distribution and attenuation within cities …-city industry cluster in a diversified, large city appears to let firms enjoy the benefits of local industry-specific externalities …
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Neighborhood and agricultural clusters across states of India
Chatterjee, Tirtha; Kumar, A. Ganesh - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) - 2014
In this study we trace how number and members of income clusters have changed in Indian agriculture over the last four and a half decades. Two features which stand out in our results are that not all geographical neighbors belong to the same cluster and clusters include both geographical...
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GEOGRAPHIC AND INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS OF REAL INCOME:A SPATIO-TEMPORAL SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION APPROACH
Ngeleza, Guyslain K.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Masters, … - Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University - 2006
This paper tests a series of prominent hypotheses regarding the determinants of per-capita income using a novel spatial econometric approach to control for spillovers among neighboring countries and for spatially correlated omitted variables. We use simultaneous equations to identify alternative...
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The People's Republic of China's import competition and skill demand in Japanese manufacturing
Yamashita, Nobuaki - 2017
This paper examines the hypothesis that manufacturing industries in Japan that have been exposed to import competition …, this has not resulted in substituting skilled workers in Japanese manufacturing. Rather, it has had the profound positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688667
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Assessing Output and Productivity Growth in the Banking Industry
Athanasoglou, Panayiotis P. - 2012
This paper assesses the evolution of output and productivity in the Greek banking industry for the period 1990-2006. Three main categories of bank output were estimated based on modern theoretical approaches, while for the estimation of output and productivity (partial and total factor) we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098734
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The People's Republic of China's import competition and skill demand in Japanese manufacturing
Yamashita, Nobuaki - 2017
This paper examines the hypothesis that manufacturing industries in Japan that have been exposed to import competition …, this has not resulted in substituting skilled workers in Japanese manufacturing. Rather, it has had the profound positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591124