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Regional cluster policy: The Asian model vs. the OECD approach

Pessoa, Argentino - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more looking at the cluster approach either with a view to accelerate the existing clusters or for providing the basis for the emergence of new ones. In fact, not only as a...

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The global agglomeration of multinational firms

Alfaro, Laura; Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang - In: Journal of International Economics 94 (2014) 2, pp. 263-276

agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to the agglomeration of domestic firms? Using a unique worldwide plant … spatially continuous index of agglomeration and analyze the different patterns underlying the global economic geography of … are not a simple reflection of domestic industrial clusters. Agglomeration economies including technology diffusion and …

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Patterns of China's industrialization: Concentration, specialization, and clustering

Long, Cheryl; Zhang, Xiaobo - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 3, pp. 593-612

This paper presents a few stylized facts on the patterns of China's industrialization by computing a set of multi-dimensional measures on industrial concentration, regional specialization, and clustering based on census data at the firm level in 1995 and 2004. Our results show that China's rapid...

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Multiple Markets and Spatial Agglomeration in a One Shopping Trip Model

Noguera, Jose - EconWPA - 2001

This paper analyzes a spatial competitive monopolistic model of agglomeration in which households make only one …

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“Malthus living in a slum: urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth”

Castells-Quintana, David - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2015

The link between urban concentration and economic growth at country level is not straightforward, as there are benefits as well as costs associated with urban concentration. Indeed, recent empirical evidence suggests different effects of urban concentration on growth depending on the level of...

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Agglomeration, City Size and Crime

Gaigné, Carl; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper analyzes the relationship between crime and agglomeration where the land, labor, product, and crime markets …

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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2012

Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...

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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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Effects of Ownership on Agglomeration Economies: Evidence from Ukrainian Firm Level Data

Vakhitov, Volodymyr; Bollinger, Chris - Kyiv School of Economics - 2010

We use establishment level longitudinal data to estimate agglomeration economies in the Ukraine for machine … former Soviet Union. We find that state owned firms accrue little or no agglomeration benefits, while privately-owned firms … are able to take advantage of agglomeration effects. Foreign-owned firms may gain the most from agglomeration. These …

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Penetrating the knowledge filter in "rust-belt" economies

Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2008

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...

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