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What makes cities more productive? : evidence from 5 OECD countries on the role of urban governance
Ahrend, Rudiger; Farchy, Emily; Kaplanis, Ioannis; … - 2016
that contrasts cross-country evidence on agglomeration benefits with the productivity impact of metropolitan governance … rather than administrative boundaries. The analysis finds that cities with fragmented governance structures tend to have … lower levels of productivity. The estimated elasticity for an increase in the number of local jurisdiction is 0.06, which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810696
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Suburban development of St Petersburg : comparison of 2 subjects of Federation long-term visions
Limonov, Leonid Ė. - 2014
part of a single administrative-territorial entity and had common governance bodies that applied a common approach to their … recommendations are formulated to improve the efficiency of the governance of the region, paying special attention to St Petersburg …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011503518
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Analyzing the spatial distribution of manufacturing clusters in the Istanbul Metropolitan Area : 50th European Congress of Regional Science Association, 19-23 August 2010,Jönköping...
Gezici, Ferhan; Müderrisoğlu, Burcu - 2010
While the location and concentration of industrial activities has been a significant topic for both urban planners and urban and regional economist, the cluster approach has contributed to theory and empirical works by emphasizing the significancy of networks with respect to the competitiveness....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012172366
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On the spatial scale of industrial agglomerations
Mori, Tomoya; Smith, Tony E. - 2015
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 Smith (2014) proposed a pair of quantitative measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485214
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Agglomeration, inequality and economic growth : cross-section and panel data analysis
Castells Quintana, David; Royuela, Vicente - 2012
The effects of inequality on economic growth depend on several factors. On one hand, they depend on the time horizon considered, on the initial level of income and on its initial distribution. But, on the other hand, as growth and inequality are also uneven across space, it also seems relevant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515023
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Population allocation in resource-based economy areas and entrepreneurship support
Bukharova, Evgenya; Vorontsova, Irina; Ferova, Irina; … - 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin placed an emphasis on priority development of the resource regions of Eastern Siberia: this is related to the large-scale development of natural resources and to the development of modern manufacturing industries. In this context, it is necessary to solve the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490016
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Location of national manufacturing in international context (the case of U.S.)
Kurichev, Nikolay - 2014
enhances selection of enterprises as TNCs optimize their operations globally and, because of strong link between productivity …
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A two-stage approach to spatio-temporal analysis with strong and weak cross-sectional dependence
Bailey, Natalia; Holly, Sean; Pesaran, M. Hashem - In: Journal of applied econometrics 31 (2016) 1, pp. 249-280
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011642153
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Market potential and distance decay : growth and decline of sectors across locations in urban regions
Klaesson, Johan; Johansson, Börje - 2013
This paper introduces a model which identifies the economic activity of each local economy (location) and observes the time distance between each pair of locations as well as the average time distance between sub locations in each local economy. The study focuses on five categories of firms:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011560011
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Neighborhood effects on productivity : a knowledge spillover analysis using geocoded data
Larsson, Johan P. - 2012 - JIBS Friday seminar draft, June, 1st, 2012, Unpublished manuscript
This paper exploits a geocoded, publicly audited, full population dataset on employment and wages in Sweden's city areas, to analyze the relationship between density of economic activity and individual wages. The analysis is based on 250-by-250 meter (about 0.15 miles), 1 km2, 9 km2 and 100 km2...
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