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The economics of density: evidence from the Berlin wall
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Redding, Stephen J.; Sturm, Daniel; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This paper develops a quantitative model of city structure to separate agglomeration forces, dispersion forces and fundamentals as determinants of location choices. The model remains tractable and amenable to empirical analysis because of stochastic shocks to worker productivity, which yield a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126549
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Zipf's law for cities: a cross country investigation
Soo, Kwok Tong - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This paper assesses the empirical validity of Zipf¿s Law for cities, using new data on 73 countries and two estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071193
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Mountains in a flat world: why proximity still matters for the location of economic activity
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Crescenzi, Riccardo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
Thomas Friedman (2005, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) argues that the expansion of trade, the internationalization of firms, the galloping process of outsourcing and the possibility of networking are creating a ‘flat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071367
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From sectoral to functional urban specialisation
Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
structure, from a configuration where cities specialise by sector and host integrated headquarters and production plants, to a … configuration where cities specialise by function, with headquarters from different sectors and business services clustered in a few … large cities and production plants from each sector clustered in smaller separate cities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744903
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Spatial disparities in developing countries: cities, regions and international trade
Venables, Tony - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
models that capture these first and second nature economic geographies. The presence of increasing returns to scale in cities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746085
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New road infrastructure: the effects on firms
Gibbons, Stephen; Lyytikainen, Teemu; Overman, Henry G.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This paper estimates the impact of road improvements on firm employment and productivity using plant level longitudinal data for Britain. Exposure to transport improvements is measured by changes in employment accessibility along the road network. These changes are constructed using data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125960
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Geographic concentration and the temporal scope of agglomeration economics: an index decomposition
Wren, Colin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
The paper decomposes a geographical concentration index to examine the temporal scope of a spillover, which is the period of time over which one firm’s activity directly affects the location of other firms’ activities. Natural advantages are fixed over reasonably long time periods, but if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125978
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The territorial dynamics of innovation in China and India
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Storper, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This article analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in these two countries, we show that both countries exhibit increasingly strong polarization of innovative capacity in a limited number of urban areas. But the factors behind this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125988
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Agglomeration in the periphery
Sarvimäki, Matti - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
i. This discussion paper is a completely revised version of SERCDP0047, published April 2010. This paper argues that agglomeration externalities are important even in the rural periphery. The analysis focuses on the forced relocation of more than a tenth of the Finnish population after World War...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126038
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Transportation costs and the spatial organization of economic activity
Redding, Stephen; Turner, Matthew A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
scales, between and within cities. We outline a variety of areas for further research, including distinguishing reallocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126069