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Agglomeration and Co-Agglomeration of Services Industries
Kolko, Jed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Economic research on industry location and agglomeration has focused nearly exclusively on manufacturing. This paper … traditional measures of knowledge spillovers, natural resource inputs, and labor pooling explain little of agglomeration in … services industries, this paper takes an alternative approach and looks at co-agglomeration to assess why industries cluster …
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Geographic Concentration and Establishment Size : Analysis in an Alternative Economic Geography Model
Stevens, John J.; Holmes, Thomas J. - 2002
Big cities specialize in services rather than manufacturing. Big-city establishments in services are larger than the national average while those in manufacturing are smaller. This paper proposes an explanation of these and other facts. The theory is developed in an economic geography model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014118442
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No price like home : global house prices, 1870 - 2012
Knoll, Katharina; Schularick, Moritz; Steger, Thomas M. - 2014
How have house prices evolved in the long-run? This paper presents annual house price indices for 14 advanced economies since 1870. Based on extensive data collection, we are able to show for the first time that house prices in most industrial economies stayed constant in real terms from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413728
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No Price Like Home : Global House Prices, 1870-2012
Schularick, Moritz - 2021
How have house prices evolved in the long-run? This paper presents annual house price indices for 14 advanced economies since 1870. Based on extensive data collection, we are able to show for the first time that house prices in most industrial economies stayed constant in real terms from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212252
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No Price Like Home : Global House Prices, 1870-2012
Knoll, Katharina; Schularick, Moritz; Steger, Thomas Michael - 2021
How have house prices evolved over the long-run? This paper presents annual house prices for 14 advanced economies since 1870. Based on extensive data collection, we show that real house prices stayed constant from the 19th to the mid-20th century, but rose strongly during the second half of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315572
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Globalization and the Inequality of Nations
Krugman, Paul; Venables, Anthony J. - 1995
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Globalization and the Inequality of Nations
Krugman, Paul; Venables, Anthony J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611599
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Agglomeration and comparative advantage in vertically-related firms
Pontes, José Pedro - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2006
This paper models, in game-theoretical terms, the location of two vertically-linked monopolistic firms in a spatial economy formed by a large, high labor cost country and a relatively small, low labor cost country. It is found that the decrease in transport costs shifts firms towards the low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005463772
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Chapter 58. Agglomeration and Economic Geography
Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Thisse, Jacques-Franois - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 4, …, (pp. 2563-2608). 2004
Peaks and troughs in the spatial distributions of population, employment and wealth are a universal phenomenon in search of a general theory. Such spatial imbalances have two possible explanations. In the first one, uneven economic development can be seen as the result of the uneven distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024004
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Trading Costs, the Expansion of Trade and Economic Growth in Pre-Industrial Europe
Kohn, Meir - 2001
In pre-industrial Europe, growth was driven by the expansion of trade, and the expansion of trade was driven by falling trading costs. This paper discusses the mechanisms linking these processes: profit-seeking behavior by merchants, changes in the organization of production, technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014138697