This paper empirically analyzes the agglomeration-related productivity premium at the enterprise level of the … manufacturing industry in Russia. A settlement is counted as part of an urban agglomeration in two cases: that of a large, central … as a result of urbanization and external scale economy - the agglomeration of firms belonging to different industries at …

of agglomeration effects on growth prospects of firms is less clear. Because of the heterogeneity of industries …, different agglomeration mechanisms, or the way how industrial clusters are identified and spatially delimited, the conclusions … separately. Therefore, for each firm a micro-geographically defined agglomeration measure is calculated, which is free of the …

Standard approaches to studying industrial agglomeration have been in terms of scalar measures of agglomeration within … each industry. But such measures often fail to distinguish spatial scales of agglomeration. In a previous paper, Mori and … agglomeration based on an explicit method for detecting spatial clusters. The first, designated as the global extent of industrial …

This paper examines the empirical relationship between agglomeration and economic growth for a panel of 48 Central and … Eastern European regions from 1995 to 2006. By agglomeration, we mean the within-regional concentration of aggregate economic … for endogeneity and spatial dependence. Our empirical analysis provides evidence of a positive effect of agglomeration as …

economic activities. ? It is necessary to accelerate the process of formation of Krasnoyarsk agglomeration as a business center …

The question whether agglomeration effects are of importance for regional development has a long tradition in regional … science. This paper asks if regional characteristics and specifically ag-glomeration effects influence the performance of … regional agglomeration effects for Germany. Second, while earlier papers looked only at few sectors of the economy or only at …