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 …

Agglomeration brings costs (e.g., intensified local competition) as well as benefits (e.g., knowledge spillover). It is … important to examine the net impact of agglomeration to understand the geographic distribution of economic activities. In this … study, we use firm markup (defined as the ratio of price over marginal cost) to capture the net impact of agglomeration …

-geographically defined agglomeration measures, free of the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP), are used to study 23 industries. The spatial … impacts of agglomeration of related economic and knowledge generating activities are examined by using travel time distances … prospects tend to be hampered by the agglomeration of own-industry employment, but improved by proximate scientific activity …

incentives are in the presence of agglomeration and urbanisation externalities. We find evidence that regional industrial …

regional growth model, which links first time knowledge spillover, agglomeration, distribution of per capita productivity and … of knowledge affect agglomeration and distribution of per capita productivity. One of key findings is, that grasp of …

This paper assesses the agglomeration pattern of four-digit industries in Germany using a rich data set on the … population of German firms. To identify geographical agglomeration, we follow the distance based approach of Duranton and Overman …

The paper analyzes the impact of skill-biased migration policies under the economics of agglomeration. It therefore … develops an agglomeration model with two types of mobile worker who are heterogeneous and differ both within and between skill …