Glaeser, Edward L.; Kallal, Hedi; Scheinkman, José; … - 2021
Recent theories of economic growth, including Romer (1986), Porter (1989) and Jacobs (1969), have stressed the role of … technological spillovers in generating growth. Because such knowledge spillovers are particularly effective in cities, where … communication between people is more extensive, data on the growth of industries in different cities allows us to test some of these …