formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are …

formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are …

Using the German local business tax as a testing ground, we empirically investigate the impact of firm agglomeration on … measures for the communities' agglomeration characteristics. The findings indicate that urbanization and localization economies …'s potential to tax agglomeration rents depends on its firm and industry agglomeration relative to neighboring communities. To …

efficiency arises since the efficient distribution of regional infrastructure requires full agglomeration for sufficiently low …

In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of … propensity to export. This renders the home market more important speaking against agglomeration. We also relate changes in firm …

spatial regression discontinuity design allows us to control for all spatially-continuous determinants of agglomeration (e …

agglomeration economies. Using detailed data on EU transfers, we infer the local effects of different transfer types on productivity …