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Spiders and Snakes : Offshoring and Agglomeration in the Global Economy

Baldwin, Richard E. - 2011

Global production sharing is determined by international cost differences and frictions related to the costs of unbundling stages spatially. The interaction between these forces depends on engineering details of the production process with two extremes being 'snakes' and 'spiders'. Snakes are...

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Heterogeneous Firms, Agglomeration and Economic Geography : Spatial Selection and Sorting

Baldwin, Richard E. - 2009

and policy analysis. A 'selection effect' means standard empirical measures overestimate agglomeration economies. A …

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Temporal Agglomeration

Hall, Robert E. - 2010

When economic activity is concentrated over space or over time, it is more efficient. Most production occurs in geographic hot spots, and most production occurs between 9 and 12 in the morning and 1 to 5 in the afternoon on weekdays. The thick-market efficiencies that encourage the concentration...

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Economic Geography and Reginal Production Structure : An Empirical Investigation

Davis, Donald R.; Weinstein, David E. - 2021

There are two principal theories of why countries or regions trade: comparative advantage and increasing returns to scale. Yet there is virtually no empirical work that assesses the relative importance of these two theories in accounting for production structure and trade. We use a framework...

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Agglomeration Benefits and Location Choice : Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing Investment in the United States

Head, Keith; Ries, John C.; Swenson, Deborah - 2021

because proximity generates positive externalities or 'agglomeration effects.' Under this view, chance events and government … that industry-level agglomeration benefits play an important role in location decisions …

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Technology, Agglomeration, and Regional Competition for Investment

Blonigen, Bruce A.; Kolpin, Van W. - 2021

the endogenous determination of regions' policies, firm technology, and agglomeration externalities. In particular, we … agglomeration externalities that are inherently present in many industries. We offer several case studies that provide evidence …

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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...

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The Effects of Offshore Assembly on Industry Location : Evidence from U.S. Border Cities

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

In this paper, I examine how the growth of offshore assembly in Mexico has affected manufacturing activity in U.S. border cities. Under the offshore assembly provision of the U.S. tariff schedule, goods that are assembled abroad using U.S.-manufactured components receive preferential tariff...

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The Geographic Reach of Market and Non-Market Channels of Technology Transfer : Comparing Citations and Licenses of University Patents

Mowery, David C.; Ziedonis, Arvids A. - 2021

The growth of high-technology clusters in the United States suggests the presence of strong regional agglomeration …

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Scale Economies and the Geographic Concentration of Industry

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

In recent empirical literature on spatial agglomeration, many papers find evidence consistent with location …-specific externalities of some sort. Our willingness to accept evidence of agglomeration economies depends on how well key estimation … problems have been addressed. Three issues are particularly troublesome for identifying agglomeration effects: unobserved …

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