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A new regional balance : challenges and opportunities for intermediate city regions in Europe : 54th Congress of the European Regional Science Association

Cornett, Andreas P. - 2014 - Preliminary version

located in the vicinity of the large urban agglomeration or farer away in the country. The project is both explorative and …

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Concentration of resources and economic growth

Castells-Quintana, David - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 2 (2015) 1, pp. 17-25

modern economic development, namely increasing agglomeration and rising inequalities within countries. In particular, the …

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Determinants of Regional Growth by Manufacturing Sector in Mexico, 1998-2008

Pereira, Mariana - 2015

, agglomeration economies, and initial conditions, the south, the center and the Gulf of Mexico have a relative disadvantage for …This article presents an empirical analysis aimed at identifying the determinants of regional growth in Mexico by … manufacturing sector in the period 1988-2008. In the framework of agglomeration economies it argues that the main factor behind …

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Local knowledge spillovers and innovation persistence of firms

Holl, Adelheid; Peters, Bettina; Rammer, Christian - 2020

Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm’s innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known about potential contingencies affecting the degree of persistence. This paper focuses on the role of the local knowledge environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers...

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Inclusive Economic Resilience after the Great Recession : Focusing on Political Fragmentation in American Metropolitan Areas

Lee, Soomi; Wang, Shu - 2021

We propose the concept of “inclusive economic resilience” and examine intra-regional economic recovery in American metropolitan areas after the Great Recession. Previous studies have treated regional and municipal economic resilience separately with little attention to within-region...

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Chapter 15. How Mortgage Finance Affects the Urban Landscape

Chan, Sewin; Haughwout, Andrew; Tracy, Joseph - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 987-1045). 2015

This chapter considers the structure of mortgage finance in the United States and its role in shaping patterns of homeownership, the nature of the housing stock, and the organization of residential activity. We start by providing some background on the design features of mortgage contracts that...

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Chapter 6. Agglomeration and Innovation

Carlino, Gerald; Kerr, William R. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 349-404). 2015

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

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Urban Agglomeration and CEO Compensation

Francis, Bill B. - 2012

big, central cities (i.e., urban agglomeration) and the level and structure of CEO compensation. Using CEO compensation … control variables, sensitivity and endogeneity tests, indicating that urban agglomeration may reflect positive externalities …

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Happiness in Australian Urban Areas : Do In-Urban and Out-Urban Migrants Have the Same Experience?

Ho, Phuong - 2023

Using individual panel data from Australia, this paper finds that people in urban areas are less happy than those in other areas. In fixed effects models, the urban effect on happiness is estimated by comparing the happiness levels of migrants when they are in urban areas to levels in other...

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The Business of City Hall

Ahern, Kenneth R. - 2021

governments that provide the infrastructure and services that facilitate agglomeration economies in urban areas. However, there is …

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