This study explores the relationship between agglomeration economies and industrial productivity between 1980 and 2010 … in Ecuador. The measure of productivity used is labour productivity. We conclude that urbanization economies have a … positive impact on productivity in the period analyzed. …

of Great Britain. The potentially two-way causality between agglomeration and productivity is dealt with using two …

findings. We detect local productivity advantages for both UA and ID. However, firms located in UA attain a larger Total Factor …In this paper we compare the magnitude of local productivity advantages associated to two different spatial … small firms producing relatively homogenous goods. We use a very large sample of Italian manufacturing firms observed over …

average labor productivity in one spatial unit on employment density and other controls. The novelty of our analysis is that … several estimation strategies; namely, Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Two-Stages Least Squares (2SLS), Quantile Regressions (QR … agglomeration in the conditional mean of labor productivity. Additionally, the QR and IVQR estimators find a progressively …

management regulation restricting manure application per acre may weaken productivity gains arising from the agglomeration …

. We find that across South Africa's firms, intermediate inputs have the highest impact on firm productivity. The results …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 …

growth of large services firms in the densest urban areas, boosting services productivity and services exports, but also land … density. This bias can be accounted for by the location choices of large services firms that sort into big cities and large … manufacturing firms that increasingly locate in suburban and rural areas. Motivated by these findings, we estimate a structural …

, small units are shown to be more spatially correlated, suggesting that different externalities may drive (or may be driven …" externalities compared to more "localized" ones, such as Marshallian, Jacobian or factor endowments based externalities …