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The spatial concentration of firms has long been a central issue in economics both under the theoretical and the applied point of view due mainly to the important policy implications. A popular approach to its measurement, which does not suffer from the problem of the arbitrariness of the...
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This paper develops a quantitative model of city structure to separate agglomeration forces, dispersion forces and …
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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...
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The study of the geographical distribution of firms and of the dynamic pattern of firm entry and firm exits is a particularly relevant issue in regional health economics especially in the view of policy intervention to geographically balance health service supply and demand. The current state of...
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) we used Ripley’s K-functions as instruments to study the inter-sectoral co-agglomeration pattern of firms in a single …
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This paper develops a quantitative model of internal city structure that features agglomeration and dispersion forces … estimate agglomeration and dispersion forces, we use data on thousands of city blocks in Berlin for 1936, 1986 and 2006 and … residential externalities. We show that the model with the estimated agglomeration parameters can account both qualitatively and …
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For the impartial observer of German regions, differences in regional industry structures and prosperity are quite obvious. On the one side, there are regions characterised by different industries, firm structures and labour qualification profiles. On the other side, some of these regions are...
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of inter- and intra-industry agglomeration as proxies of access with a newly developed gravity-based indicator … a sample of 110,083 German firms, provide evidence that agglomeration effects play an essential role in firms' location …
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This study empirically establishes a link between medieval trade, agglomeration and contemporary regional development …; they also reveal a robust connection between medieval city growth and contemporary regional agglomeration and industry … indeed transmitted via its effect on agglomeration and industry concentration. This research thus highlights the long …
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This paper investigates to what extent the different subsectors of the knowledge economy are subject to sector-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a particular region. To this end, we analyze and...
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