This paper uses a comprehensive, official firm-level dataset for German manufacturing firms to investigate the location … this dataset is investigated for the first time in regard to the location choices of firms. Results reveal that … agglomeration economies play a significant role for small firms, but not for medium-sized and large firms. Whereas the market …

The paper quantifies the impact of agglomeration economies on the clustering of German firms. Therefore, I use the 2006 … Innobarometer survey, which focuses on cluster characteristics and activities of German firms, to empirically identify agglomeration … economies derived from the New Economic Geography and Marshall externalities. At the industry specific level, I find that within …

This paper deals with the question whether firms' employment performance in the periods preceding their exit can be … other decision-makers, because by knowing more about possible indicators of market exit and possible problems of firms, they … might have instruments at hand to detain unwanted firm deaths. Although it can be seen as a stylized fact that exiting firms …

This paper analyses the relationship between firms' multi-factor productivity and the effective employment density of … area with 10 percent higher effective density has firms with productivity that is 0.69 percent higher, once we control for … the industry specific production functions and sorting of more productive firms across industries and locations. We …

externalities derived via local job mobility produce significantly more powerful effects for the involved firms as compared to the …This article analyses the impact of labour market-induced externalities on firm performance by using a unique database …,985 workplaces, our results show that firms belonging to networks of local job mobility (i.e. ‘localized mobility clusters …