agglomeration and the commuting costs for workers. This paper reviews and tests implications of the LRH-model for residential rents … using semiparametric regression techniques. We show that in mixed urban areas, agglomeration is an important determinant of …

first question examines the existence of agglomeration economies in the hospital service industry. The second considers … that agglomeration economies exist in the hospital service industry and are generated in part through the sharing of … “Chinitz” effect identified elsewhere in the literature. Third, the agglomeration effect attenuates geographically. …

In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of … propensity to export. This renders the home market more important speaking against agglomeration. We also relate changes in firm …

-region level, we show that the elasticity of agglomeration on productivity is much larger for traders than for non-traders. As …

and even small relative concerns destabilize the full agglomeration equilibrium, which is stable in the Krugman model. …

: international trade and agglomeration processes. First setting implies that the industrial labor is immobile, while second one … function, transportation costs and degree of asymmetry in initial labor endowment. As for agglomeration process, it was found … that the asymmetry in the population distribution simplifies pattern of agglomeration, making the direction of migration …

Many prior treatments of agglomeration either explicitly or implicitly suppose that all industries agglomerate for the … approach is the extrapolation of the agglomeration experience of one key sector or cluster to the larger economy. Another is … the pooling of data to look at common tendencies in agglomeration. This paper uses UK establishment level data on …