effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial …

This Paper studies the theoretical micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies. We distinguish three types of … characterization of some of the main theoretical underpinnings of urban agglomeration economies, to discuss modeling issues that arise … when working with these tools, and to compare different sources of agglomeration economies in terms of the aggregate urban …

the quality of the match between job and worker, trade liberalization may lead to industrial agglomeration and inter …-industry trade. The agglomeration force is the improvement in the quality of matches when firms recruit from a bigger pool of labour …. The forces against agglomeration are the existence of trade costs and monopoly power in the labour market. We show that …

agglomeration. The nature of those benefits remains unclear, however. In this Paper we take advantage of a new dataset to quantify …

geography exercises (the analysis of spatial concentration, agglomeration economies, and trade determinants), using various …

We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local determinants of agglomeration … developing economies. We finally provide a discussion of attempts to identify and quantify specific agglomeration mechanisms. …

external markets does not. Therefore, large agglomeration economies prevail in China and they are more localised than in …