Recent empirical evidence suggests that the density of local economic activity measured as the number of employees per squared kilometer positively affects local average productivity. In this paper we use British data from the European Community Household Panel to ask whether local density...

Recent empirical evidence suggests that the density of local economic activity measured as the number of employees per squared kilometer positively affects local average productivity. In this paper we use British data from the European Community Household Panel to ask whether local density...

This paper presents a meta-analysis of the "cluster literature" contained in scientific journals from 1969 to 2007. Thanks to an original database we study the evolution of a stream of literature which focuses on a research object which is both a theoretical puzzle and an empirical widespread...