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-region level, we show that the elasticity of agglomeration on productivity is much larger for traders than for non-traders. As …
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upon the firms' risk preferences. As a result regional agglomeration of investments may occur although the objective of the …
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urbanization agglomeration patterns of new firm location. To this end, we analyze the location decisions of new manufacturing firms … in Spain. First, for a 3-digit level, we identify for each industry which type of agglomeration economies - localization … agglomeration economies, we analyse which industry characteristics are the sources that explain differences in the strength of these …
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Purpose By observing facts of the "reversal of agglomeration" of Chinese enterprises during the period of rapid …
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dispersive forces become prevalent at the country level, agglomeration incentives strenghtens specialization within a large …
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Externalities have for a long time been perceived as awkward cases that are alien to well-structured economic analyses. During recent decades ideas inherited from Marshall and others have regained interest in the analysis of specialisation and trade, urban formation and growth as well as...
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This chapter on urbanization and growth focuses on modeling and empirical evidence that pertain to a number of inter-related questions. Why do cities form in an economy, with so much of economic activity in countries geographically concentrated in cities? Second, how do different types of cities...
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emphasized in the New Economic Geography (NEG) literature. Both growth and agglomeration processes are, however, themselves … uncertainty impacts upon growth and agglomeration. The main results are twofold. First, nonzero mortality rates support a more … equal distribution of productive factors by introducing an additional dispersion force that countervails the agglomeration …
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skilled workers. We conclude that industry structure, geography and agglomeration matter, but in the end, new firms are …
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We consider whether external urban economic advantages (agglomeration economies) vary with time and space using a … agglomeration economies that are stronger than average. …
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