symmetric dispersion or complete agglomeration in a specific region. …

that the composite effect of agglomeration on firms' exports takes on a Parabola-shape pattern. Moreover, higher-productivity …The paper proposes a model to investigate the influences of agglomeration on heterogeneous firms' exporting behaviors …. Competition and thus selection effect caused by agglomeration forces less productive firms to exit the market while agglomeration …

This paper studies how firm heterogeneity in terms of productivity affects the balance between agglomeration and … endogenous markups. It shows that firm heterogeneity matters. However, whether it shifts the balance from agglomeration to … `evenness'. Accordingly, the role of firm heterogeneity in selection models of agglomeration can not be fully understood without …

Despite the increasing and newly inspired interests in geographical economics and industry location theory, the … contributes with a classification of first- and second-nature causes of agglomeration and clustering. This part will also …

trade integration on productivity. For this purpose we address the link between trade and productivity thanks to knowledge … thus both new ideas and their diffusion. We observe that a country's productivity depends on its own R&D efforts as well as …

from total factor productivity originating from agglomeration economies and the spatial diffusion of productivity shocks …Using comprehensive, anonymized tax administrative data for the 2008-14 period, we examine firm-level productivity in … South Africa. Measures of firm-level productivity are included in a spatial autoregressive model that assesses spillovers …