Spatial Knowledge Spillovers and the Dynamics of Agglomeration and Regional Growth

1 Introduction and Motivation -- 2 Why and How Does Economic Activity Grow? An Overview of the Literature -- 3 Why and How Does Economic Activity Concentrate in Space? Another Overview of the Literature -- 4 Spatial Knowledge Spillovers and the Dynamics of Agglomeration and Regional Growth -- 5 Marshallian Externalities, Spatial Self-Organization and Regional Growth — an Agent Based Approach -- 6 Spatial Processes in the Economy — an Empirical Investigation -- 7 Summary and Conclusion -- A Generalization of the Model Developed in Chapter 4 -- A. 1 Illustration of the Allocation Dynamics for a Region with an Arbitrary Number of Firms -- A.2 Proof that Firms Employ Identical Factor Ratios or Identical Factor Shares -- B Mathematical Appendix -- B.l Proof that the Bias of an OLS Estimation in the Presence of Spatial Autocorrelation is Biased -- B.2 Derivation of the Log-Likelihood Function of Model (6.2) -- C Data -- List of Symbols -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- References.