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(physical and political geography) and how much can be derived from endogenous second nature factors (man-made agglomeration …
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geography exercises (the analysis of spatial concentration, agglomeration economies, and trade determinants), using various …
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This study examines the impact of localization and urbanization economies as well as the impact of city size on urban … growth in German cities from 2003 to 2007. Although, from a theoretical perspective, agglomeration economies are supposed to … known about agglomeration economies in Germany, where interregional support policy and the characteristics of the federal …
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This paper examines the impact of employment density (agglomeration) on the hourly earnings of workers across districts … of Great Britain. The potentially two-way causality between agglomeration and productivity is dealt with using two … instruments: the total land area of a district and its population density. The estimated agglomeration effect is similar across …
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In this paper we aim at identifying stylized facts in order to suggest adequate models of spatial co–agglomeration of … for bivariate (rather than univariate) distributions, which allows uncovering co–agglomeration and repulsion phenomena …
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This paper presents a meta-analysis of the “cluster literature” contained in scientific journals from 1969 to 2007. Thanks to an original database we study the evolution of a stream of literature which focuses on a research object which is both a theoretical puzzle and an empirical...
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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 … localization through space-time K-functions. The empirical part of the paper will focus on the study of the long run localization …
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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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Most studies of the effects of transport infrastructure on the performance of individual firms have focused on marginal expansions of the rail or highway network over time. In this paper, we study the short-run effects of a large discrete shock in the quality of transport infrastructure, viz....
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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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