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Carlino, Gerald; Kerr, William R. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 349-404). 2015

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the …

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Effects of Housing Asset Deflation on Shrinking Cities : A Case of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area

Uto, Masaaki - 2022

With shrinking cities becoming a global issue, declining housing demands due to declining population leads to a reduction in land prices. Housing asset value decline occurs mainly in suburbs, which has an economic effect on elderly households. Although some issues have already been indicated, it...

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Buzz: Face-to-Face Contact and the Urban Economy

Storper, Michael; Venables, Anthony J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

This paper argues that existing models of urban concentrations are incomplete unless grounded in the most fundamental aspect of proximity; face-to-face contact. Face-to-face contact has four main features; it is an efficient communication technology; it can help solve incentive problems; it can...

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Inclusive Economic Resilience after the Great Recession : Focusing on Political Fragmentation in American Metropolitan Areas

Lee, Soomi; Wang, Shu - 2021

We propose the concept of “inclusive economic resilience” and examine intra-regional economic recovery in American metropolitan areas after the Great Recession. Previous studies have treated regional and municipal economic resilience separately with little attention to within-region...

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Economic Development and Agglomeration: Research Activity and Tax Competition in a Static Equilibrium Model

Hafner, Kurt - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2004

considering international migration in R&D-sectors. The effects of migration and firm decisions on both industrial agglomeration … agglomeration and to promote national research activity. Hence, countries face international tax competition while competing for …

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Local Human Capital Externalities or Sorting? Evidence From a Displaced Workers Sample

Silva, João Carlos Cerejeira da - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2003

In this paper we want to assess if the positive association between individual earnings and local average education is due to human capital externalities or just reflects some ommitted factors. Using a sample of displaced workers, we take into account firm characteristics as well as individual...

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Optimal size of central government and agglomeration

Furukawa, Akiyoshi - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 2, pp. 940-947

take into account agglomeration without a regional redistribution policy. The optimal size of central government depends on … result, the central government limits agglomeration. If the central government does not consider its effect on agglomeration …, it is too large in size, and it causes too much agglomeration. …

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The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms

Alfaro, Laura; Chen, Maggie - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009

agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to the agglomeration of domestic firms? Using a unique worldwide plant … spatially continuous index of pairwise-industry agglomeration and investigate the patterns and determinants underlying the … clusters of multinationals are not a simple reflection of domestic industrial clusters. Agglomeration economies including …

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Economic Geography and Wages

Cameron, Lisa A.; Amiti, Mary - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper estimates the agglomeration benefits that arise from vertical linkages between firms in the context of …). We identify the agglomeration benefits off the spatial variation in firm level nominal wages. Unusually detailed …

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Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009

We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is...

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