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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...

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Is Geographical Proximity Necessary for Knowledge Spillovers within a Cooperative Technological Network? The Case of the French Biotechnology Sector

Gallie, Emilie-Pauline - In: Regional Studies 43 (2009) 1, pp. 33-42

account the channels for spillovers diffusion. The main interest of this paper is to introduce cooperation as a channel of …Gallie E.-P. Is geographical proximity necessary for knowledge spillovers within a cooperative technological network …? The case of the French biotechnology sector, Regional Studies. The models of the geography of innovation do not take into …

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Hotelling’s competition with relative performance evaluation

Kou, Zonglai; Zhou, Min - In: Economics Letters 130 (2015) C, pp. 69-71

This paper studies the impact of relative performance evaluation (RPE) on the equilibrium locations in a Hotelling model with quadratic transportation cost. It is shown that equilibrium location varies from maximum differentiation to minimum differentiation, depending upon the relative strength...

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Agglomeration and Innovation

Carlino, Gerald; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities....

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Inshoring: The geographic fragmentation of production and inequality

Liao, Wen-Chi - In: Journal of Urban Economics 72 (2012) 1, pp. 1-16

The advent of information technology facilitates the geographic separation of production tasks, which is referred to as offshoring in international contexts and inshoring in domestic contexts. Although the literature on offshoring has flourished, the research regarding inshoring is limited. This...

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Increased Capital Mobility/Liquidity and its Repercussions at Regional Level

Corpataux, José; Crevoisier, Olivier - Group of Research in Territorial Economy (GRET), … - 2005

The most significant structural change undergone by the British and Swiss economies during the past 25 years (1975-2000) is indisputably the development of their financial systems. From this point of view, the two countries show a number of similarities: the presence of one or more international...

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Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

Kerr, William R.; Kominers, Scott Duke - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters...

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Agglomeration elasticities and firm heterogeneity

Maré, David C.; Graham, Daniel J. - In: Journal of Urban Economics 75 (2013) C, pp. 44-56

This paper examines three key issues encountered when estimating the relationship between agglomeration and multi factor productivity (‘agglomeration elasticities’): the sorting of heterogeneous firms, the convexity of agglomeration effects, and the challenges of identifying the impact of...

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Chapter 6. Agglomeration and Innovation

Carlino, Gerald; Kerr, William R. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 349-404). 2015

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data and note some resulting empirical regularities....

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States Competing for Investment

Khan, Amir Ullah; Vivek, Harsh - In: Journal of Infrastructure Development 3 (2011) 1, pp. 1-37

The second-generation reforms in India are ones where the focus shifts to a large extent from the Centre to the States. All big infrastructural areas and important subjects like land, labour and agriculture are state issues, just as health and education are. It is important indeed to highlight...

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