urban sprawl affects firm GTFP based on the agglomeration economy perspective. Our findings show that urban sprawl … negatively impacts the urban agglomeration economies and hinders the formation of labor pools, intermediate input sharing, and …

As urbanization accelerates globally, higher education agglomeration (HEA) emerges as a critical mechanism for …

shows that, first, via the agglomeration of innovation capital, digital finance provides financial support for improving the … capacity. In summary, by introducing digital finance as a key variable into urban agglomeration innovation research, this study …

We examine “agglomeration shadows” that emerge around large cities, which discourage some economic activities in nearby … areas. Identifying agglomeration shadows is complicated, however, by endogenous city formation and \wave interference" that … estimate agglomeration shadows cast on nearby areas. We find that empirically, as in the simulations, detectable agglomeration …