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Human capital and firm relocation : why footloose firms are a rare breed

Morkute, Gintare - 2015

This paper examines the role that human capital plays in firm's strategic decisions. It focuses on long-distance corporate relocations which present certain trade-offs in terms of human capital and modifies firms' relationship with the labour force. It is assessed to what extent having (an...

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Agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship: testing for spatial externalities in the Dutch ICT industry

van Oort, Frank G.; Stam, Erik - 2005

Although there is growing evidence on the role of agglomeration economies in the formation and growth of firms, both … the concepts of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship tend to be ambiguously defined and measured in the literature …. In this study, we aim to improve the conceptualisations and measures of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship …

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Fields of knowledge, types of higher education institutions, and innovative start-ups : an empirical investigation

Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2014

We investigate the role played by different fields of academic knowledge and various types of higher education institutions in the emergence of innovative start-ups in a region. We show that education and research in the applied and natural sciences have the strongest effect on the emergence of...

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Productivity and the Density of Human Capital

Abel, Jaison R. - 2011

We estimate a model of urban productivity in which the agglomeration effect of density is enhanced by a metropolitan …

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Agglomeration, Product Heterogeneity, and Firm Entry

Freedman, Matthew - 2012

This paper investigates the interaction between product heterogeneity and geographic agglomeration. Using data for … distribution of other hotels in an area. Our results are consistent with countervailing competition and agglomeration effects that …

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Regional Investment Under Uncertain Costs of Location

Broll, Udo - 2012

upon the firms' risk preferences. As a result regional agglomeration of investments may occur although the objective of the …

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Industrial Configuration in an Economy with Low Transportation Costs

Takatsuka, Hajime - 2013

We examine how the spatial economy with multiple industries is shaped when interregional trade costs and intraregional commuting costs are low. All industries are characterized by increasing returns to scale and monopolistic competition, and they are differentiated by their trade costs and the...

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Urban Functional Specialisation and the Interplay between Firm's Communication Costs

Gori, Giuseppe Francesco - 2014

This paper focuses on the functional specialisation of a system of cities, with particular attention to the role and the formation process of secondary business centers.At the European level, the latters can be identified in the large number of regional capitals, and properly defined as cities...

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Plants’ Self-Selection, Agglomeration Economies and Regional Productivity in Chile

Saito, Hisamitsu - 2010

In this study, we assess the relative contribution of plants' self-selection and agglomeration economies to a region …. Then, a censored regression model relates regional productivity-distribution measures to agglomeration economies. We find … agglomeration economies in increasing a region's productivity level …

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The Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in Italy

de Dominicis, Laura - 2007

Existing indices measuring the spatial distribution of economic activity such as the Krugman Specialisation Index, the Hirschmann-Herfindahl index and the Ellison-Glaeser index typically do not take into account the spatial structure of the data. In this paper, we first consider traditional...

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