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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth : An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

Glaeser, Edward L.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2015

We study entrepreneurship and growth through the lens of U.S. cities. Initial entrepreneurship correlates strongly with urban employment growth, but endogeneity bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near cities led to specialization in industries, like steel, with...

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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth : An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

Glaeser, Edward L.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2014

Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...

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The logic of agglomeration

Duranton, Gilles; Kerr, William R. - 2015

This review discusses frontier topics in economic geography as they relate to firms and agglomeration economies. We focus on areas where empirical research is scarce but possible. We first outline a conceptual framework for city formation that allows us to contemplate what empiricists might...

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Impact investing and the fostering of entrepreneurship in disadvantaged urban areas : evidence from microdata in French banlieues

Boulongne, Romain; Durand, Rodolphe; Flammer, Caroline - 2020

We examine whether impact investing is more effective in fostering business venture success and social impact when investments are directed toward ventures located in disadvantaged urban areas (that is, areas with high crime, unemployment, and poverty) compared to similar investments directed...

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Cato's Project on Poverty and Inequality in California : Final Report

Tanner, Michael - 2022

COVID-19 has been a tragedy for California. More than 4 million Californians have contracted the disease, and over 64,000 have died from it. And beyond the cost of illness and death, the pandemic and the state’s actions to contain it have devastated California’s economy. Low-income and...

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Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers : Evidence from Million Dollar Plants

Greenstone, Michael; Hornbeck, Richard; Moretti, Enrico - 2010

We quantify agglomeration spillovers by estimating the impact of the opening of a large manufacturing plant on the …

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Hold Your Enemies Closer : In Search of Positive Impacts of Horizontal Foreign Direct Investment on Domestic Firms

Lu, Yi - 2009

Existing studies have often failed to find positive impacts of horizontal FDI on domestic firms. We argue that the two effects underpinning the impacts of horizontal FDI (i.e., the positive spillover effect and the negative competition effect) have different degrees of attenuation with distance....

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Productivity-enhancing manufacturing clusters : evidence from Vietnam

Howard, Emma; Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn - 2014

In this paper we explore the extent to which firms experience productivity spillovers from clustering using a rich data … and distinguishing between urbanization and localization economies, we find strong evidence for productivity spillovers … from clustering. The effects of these spillovers are found to be particularly large for foreign-owned firms. Our results …

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Business-NGO Collaboration in a Conflict Setting : Partnership Activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Kolk, Ans - 2013

While business-NGO partnerships have received much attention in recent years, insights have been obtained from research in ‘stable' contexts, not from conflict-ridden countries where such collaboration may be even more crucial in building trust and capacity and in addressing governance...

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Clustering, competition, and spillover effects : evidence from Cambodia

Chhair, Sokty; Newman, Carol - 2014

spillovers for informal firms and firms in the manufacturing sector but they are not of a large enough magnitude to outweigh the …

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