the presence of agglomeration economies in manufacturing. Because manufacturing paid higher wages than agriculture, this … national economy both directly through infrastructure improvements and indirectly through agglomeration economies. The model … benefits exceeding the program's costs. However, the program's indirect effects appear to have been limited: agglomeration …

regions? Agglomeration economies and human capital spillovers suggest that such policies could enhance welfare. However, the … mere existence of agglomeration externalities does not indicate which places should be subsidized. Without a better … low-income, low-density places where agglomeration effects are likely to be weakest. Most large-scale place …

. Place-based policies are rationalized by various hypotheses in urban and labor economics, such as agglomeration economies …

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

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 …

We examine geographic concentration, agglomeration, and co-location of university research and industrial R&D in three … the level of MSAs. While evidence for agglomeration (in the sense of excess' concentration relative to the size of MSAs …

firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters that are much larger than the underlying agglomerative forces themselves … clusters and industry agglomeration …

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the …