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The economics of density : evidence from the Berlin Wall ; conference paper

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Redding, Stephen; Sturm, Daniel; … - 2013

This paper develops a quantitative model of city structure to separate agglomeration forces, dispersion forces and …

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Does medieval trade still matter? : Historical trade centers, agglomeration and contemporary economic development

Wahl, Fabian - 2013

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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Relaxing Hukou : increased labor mobility and China's economic geography

Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2010

China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on...

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Metros, Agglomeration and Firm Productivity. Evidence from London

Pogonyi, Csaba G. - 2019

, leading to decreasing aggregate value added. This finding is interpreted as empirical proof for the agglomeration shadow …

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Defining the Record of High-Growth Firms by U.S. Metropolitan Region : What Happens to the Inc. 500?

Rice, Murray - 2016

Development of an improved definition of the characteristics of business growth and change is an important need for the wide audience that is interested in economic development. This study devotes attention to the intersection of two areas of research interest: the development of firms, and the...

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Employment in Large U.S. Metropolitan Airport Areas

Appold, Stephen - 2013

Airport area planning founders on the lack of a basis for realistic projections of future employment. Using a commercial establishment database including detailed data on location, activities (sector), establishment type, and employment for the 62 airports with scheduled passenger service in the...

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Agglomeration and Co-Agglomeration of Services Industries

Kolko, Jed - 2015

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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Airport Cities in U.S. Metropolitan Context

Appold, Stephen - 2013

Airports have long been a focus of urban planners. Airport cities, one of the three possible means of addressing the need for rapid airport access, are held to have emerged out of the aviation age. Systematic research into their prevalence and nature is lacking. Thus, airport city planning...

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On the Economic Foundation of the Urban Network Paradigm : Spatial Integration, Functional Integration and Economic Complementarities within the Dutch Randstad

van Oort, Frank G. - 2014

The current debate on polycentric urban development suggests that inter-firm relations are important for the creation and sustainment of urban networks. Conceptually, the degrees of spatial and functional integration and urban complementarities in economic network relations are hypothesised to...

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Agglomeration or market access? : the defining factors of firms' location choice

Gaus, Dennis; Hirte, Georg - 2023

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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