We test for internal and external economies of scale in European manufacturing, employing a more disaggregated data set … than has been used in earlier analyses. We aim to separate externalities from common business cycle effects. Fifteen … European manufacturing industries in Germany, France, the UK and Italy are analysed. We focus on economies of scale at three …

In this paper, we provide evidence based on New Economic Geography Models and estimate the statistical effects of … second nature advantages to shed some light on the locational transformation of the manufacturing sector in Mexico. Changes … expense of the old manufacturing belt in Mexico City. Furthermore, the statistical evidence indicates that that the relevant …

lead to increased regional inequalities. We examine the spatial concentration of manufacturing in Indonesia between 1980 …

Using the method of Caballero and Lyons (1990, 1992), I examine detailed Swedish manufacturing firm-level data on …

that these two types of externalities co-exist, but differ in their spatial distribution and attenuation within cities …-city industry cluster in a diversified, large city appears to let firms enjoy the benefits of local industry-specific externalities …

disagreements over the channels through which institutions and geography may explain differences in income per capita across … lagged dependent variables. With this specification, after controlling for spatial proximity, both institutions and geography …