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Symmetric and asymmetric effects of proximities : the case of M&A deals in Italy

Boschma, Ron; Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2014

interactions among firms are likely to be influenced by their geographical proximity. Recently, the literature (Boschma, 2005) has … remarked that other dimensions of proximity among economic agents, in addition to the spatial one, can play a relevant role in … investigates the effect of geographical, industrial, organizational and institutional proximity on the probability that any two …

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The empirical relevance of the new economic geography : testing for a spatial wage structure in Germany

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2000

In this paper we want to shed some light on the empirical relevance of the new economic geography. Using one of the central features of the core new economic geography models, namely that wages have the tendency to fall the further one moves away from centres of economic activity, we investigate...

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Resilience, supply chains and the great recession

Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2017 - This version: May 2017

We analyse the link between supply chains and the extent to which the Great Recession has affected national economies. Our analysis is in two steps, namely first for value added measures of supply chains and then for the Grubel-Lloyd index using gross-export data. Regarding value added measures...

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Smart cities are big cities : comparative advantage in Chinese cities

Hu, Shiwei; Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2014

The literature on China indicates that the concentration of economic activities in China is less than in other industrialized countries. Institutional limits are largely held responsible for this finding (e.g. the Hukou system); firms and workers are not able to take full advantage of the...

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Aviation, space or aerospace? : exploring the knowledge networks of two industries in den Netherlands

Brökel, Tom; Boschma, Ron - 2010

Little effort has been made to identify industries' knowledge networks, and to what extent knowledge relations occur between actors in different industries. This paper presents a network study on the Dutch aviation and space industry. Both industries are often treated as similar and categorized...

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The positive border effect of EU integration

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van; … - 2011

Distance related variables typically vary in a cross-section dimension but less so in a time dimension across cities, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration shocks that are informative of the consequences of...

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Lumpy countries, urbanization, and trade

Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2011

Lumpiness of production factors within a country might overturn the predictions for the structure of trade by the factor-abundance (HO) model. Trade patterns, as predicted by this model, can both be magnified or reversed by uneven concentration of production factors within a country. Cities are...

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Spatial concentration of manufacturing firms in China

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Zhao, Zhao - 2014 - This version, June 2014

Applying the methodology developed by Duranton and Overman (2005, 2008), we analyze localization and dispersion of firms in China. Using a unique and detailed dataset on manufacturing firms in China, we are able to follow the changes in location patterns of firms between 2002 and 2008. Our...

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Relaxing Hukou : increased labor mobility and China's economic geography

Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2010

China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on...

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The comparative advantage of Dutch cities

Brakman, Steven; Hendrich, Tijl; Marrewijk, Charles van; … - 2020

The trade literature often treats countries as dimensionless points, which is a strong assumption. Agglomeration or lumpiness of production factors within countries can affect the national pattern of trade. In this paper we analyze comparative advantage patterns for 22 cities and 4 regions for...

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