This paper examines the effect on productivity of having more near advertising agency neighbors and hence better opportunities for meetings and exchange within Manhattan. We will show that there is extremely rapid spatial decay in the benefits of having more near neighbors even in the close...

El artículo es una síntesis histórica y bibliográfica de la conformación de los centros urbanos y de mercado en Colombia, en un intento por obtener explicaciones teóricas de estos hechos relacionados. Sin embargo, no es fácil encontrar ese soporte desde la perspectiva de los modelos de...

Thomas Friedman (2005, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) argues that the expansion of trade, the internationalization of firms, the galloping process of outsourcing and the possibility of networking are creating a ‘flat...