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also uneven across space, it also seems relevant to wonder about the effects of the geographic agglomeration of economic … activity. Moreover, it seems relevant to consider not only the levels of inequality and agglomeration, but also their change … specifications and introducing different measures for agglomeration at country level, especially urbanization and urban concentration …
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The paper is devoted to problems of ensuring balanced and sustainable development of a very specific and important metropolitan region of the Russian Federation - the region of St Petersburg and surrounding it Leningrad Oblast. St.Petersburg (City) and Leningrad Oblast (Region) are both...
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This paper reconsiders the evolution of the growth of American cities since 1790 in light of new theories of urban growth. Our null hypothesis for long-term growth is random growth. We obtain evidence supporting random growth against the alternative of mean reversion (convergence) in city sizes...
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We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are "too small" to follow Zipf's law.
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.117% (or 1.180% in theory) increase in GMP. Agglomeration economies are explained as a result of an endogenous trade …
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not possible to define as random. Indeed, countries have faced a strong tendency toward agglomeration, namely population … gathers within proper areas like cities, and currently the agglomeration within cities "is an extremely complex amalgam of … the hierarchical structure of the cities within the EU Member States with particular attention on agglomeration forces by …
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classes. The empirical and theoretical literature on modern services stresses the importance of agglomeration economies for …
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try to fill this gap by estimating the effects of urban agglomeration on knowledge intensive business service firmsâ …
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rising. Whereas in developed countries urbanisation has been a long and slow process, in developing countries this process is … concentrate in one or few large metropolitan areas of disproportionate size. While urbanisation has been long recognised as a … fundamental element of the process of economic development, sustainable urbanisation has become one of the main and more pressing …
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