Similar Search Results

Testing for localisation using micro-geographic data

Duranton, Gilles; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

to overall manufacturing, we develop distance-based tests of localisation. In contrast to previous studies, our approach …% confidence level, (ii) localisation takes place mostly at small scales below 50 kilometres, (iii) the degree of localisation is … very skewed, and (iv) industries follow broad sectoral patterns with respect to localisation. Depending on the industry …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745363

Testing for localization using micro-geographic data

Duranton, Gilles; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

to overall manufacturing, we develop distance-based tests of localisation. In contrast to previous studies, our approach …% confidence level, (ii) localisation mostly takes place at small scales below 50 kilometres, (iii) the degree of localisation is … very skewed, and (iv) industries follow broad sectoral patterns with respect to localisation. Depending on the industry …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745686

Exploring the detailed location patterns of UK manufacturing industries using microgeographic data

Duranton, Gilles; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

. small, and affiliated vs. independent. We also examine co-localisation between vertically linked industries. Our analysis …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746249

Inferring conduct under the threat of entry: the case of the Brazilian cement industry

Salvo, Alberto - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper demonstrates that when an industry faces potential entry and this threat of entry constrains pre-entry prices, cost and conduct are not identified from the comparative statics of equilibrium. In such a setting, the identifying assumption behind the well-established technique of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746001

Banking stability measures

Segoviano, Miguel A.; Goodhart, Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

The recent crisis underlined that proper estimation of distress-dependence amongst banks in a global system is essential for financial stability assessment. We present a set of banking stability measures embedding banks’ linear (correlation) and nonlinear distress-dependence, and their changes...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744840

Are happier people less judgmental of other people's selfish behaviors? Laboratory evidence from trust and gift exchange games

Drouvelis, Michalis; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

What determines people’s moral judgments of selfish behaviors? Here we study whether people’s normative views in trust and gift exchange games, which underlie many situations of economic and social significance, are themselves functions of positive emotions. We used experimental survey...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746074

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

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

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

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