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Localized Mobility Clusters : Impacts of Labour Market Externalities on Firm Performance

Eriksson, Rikard; Lindgren, Urban - 2010

This article analyses the impact of labour market-induced externalities on firm performance by using a unique database that connects attributes of individuals to workplaces for the entire Swedish economy. Based on the analysis of 256,985 workplaces, our results show that firms belonging to...

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Industry Networks and the Geography of Firm Behavior

Grieser, William - 2020

We consider the role of local geographic peers in determining equilibrium firm behavior. We exploit in-transitivity in local peer-firm networks and utilize spatial econometric techniques to circumvent well-known challenges in estimating and interpreting empirical models of peer effects. We find...

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Influences of production and R&D agglomeration on productivity: Evidence from Chinese electronics firms

Yang, Chih-Hai; Lin, Hui-Lin; Li, Hsiao-Yun - In: China Economic Review 27 (2013) C, pp. 162-178

As China adopts a government-supported agglomeration model to develop high-tech industries, it is crucial to examine … production and R&D activities are highly spatially concentrated. Crucially, we find that production agglomeration has a positive … relationship with firms' productivity, especially for smaller firms. In contrast, R&D agglomeration seems to negatively relate with …

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Knowledge spillovers in cities: An auction approach

Couture, Victor - In: Journal of Economic Theory 157 (2015) C, pp. 668-698

experts to raise their knowledge bids. These results demonstrate how competitive behavior can be a source of agglomeration …

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Rivalry and Learning Among Clustered and Isolated Firms

Boari, Cristina; Fioretti, Guido; Odorici, Vincenza - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In this paper explore the relationships between rivalry and geographical proximity at the very level of contacts between individual firms. In particular, we wish to highlight the influence of geographical proximity on rival identification, on the comparison of their knowledge, and on the...

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Technologies and Proximities: Frankfurts New Role in the European Financial Centre System

Grote, Michael H.; Harrschar-Ehrnborg, Sofia; Lo, Vivien - 1999

The main argument in this paper is that new information and communication technologies (ICT) in the financial industry will increase specialisation and competition within the European financial centre system and thereby lead to a re-bundling of functions of the various financial centres....

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Services aux entreprises, centralité et multipolarisation. Le cas de Lyon

Aguiléra, Anne - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine juillet (2002) 3, pp. 397-422

This paper deals with the intrametropolitan location strategies of business services. These activities are traditionnaly highly concentrated in the centre. Recent studies show however that they tend to peripherise and that they can be part of the multipolarisation process. The empirical work...

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Métropolisation et polarités intra-urbaines. Le cas de Lyon

Buisson, Marie-Andrée; Mignot, Dominique; … - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine avril (2001) 2, pp. 271-296

Metropolization, namely the concentration of households and activity in the more developped cities, leads to greater spatial differentiation and specialization in the urban area, generating new flows and new urban dysfunctions. Although distance to the centre is still relevant to understand the...

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Geographic Concentration of Business Services Firms: A Poisson Sorting Model

Koster, Hans; Ommeren, Jos N. van; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This paper examines the effects of specialisation (within-sector clustering) and diversity (between-sector clustering) on business services profitability and location choice. We apply a semiparametric Poisson sorting model allowing for firm-specific effects. We find that for most firms,...

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Do universities affect firms’ location decisions? Evidence from Spain

Duch-Brown, Néstor; García-Estévez, Javier - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011

Human capital, scientific research, and technology are the three chief mechanisms promoting knowledge spillovers from universities to firms. Based on a study of the impact of Spain’s 1983 University Reform Act (LRU), which opened the door to the foundation of new universities and faculties,...

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