economy with an urban location and a rural one. Agglomeration economies make urban dwellers benefit from a larger population …, congestion costs associated with a too large population size limit the process of urban-rural transformation. Firms in the urban … equilibrium the urban location is inefficiently small because households fail to internalize the agglomeration economies and the …

There is a large literature on the existence of agglomeration economies, as shown in the surveys by Moomaw (1983) or …

sectoral and spatial. The goal of this paper is to clarify regional differentiation and agglomeration within the European union … is observed at the NUTS 2 regions. To determine the quality of industrial specialization and agglomeration is used in so …

mechanism for agglomeration of firms' establishments. The causes of higher productivity in denser areas have received important … classical determinants of agglomeration economies. In addition to these forces, firms may be attracted to particular locations … important role for agglomeration and the consequent productivity advantages this paper explores the role of skyscraper in …

Standard approaches to studying industrial agglomeration have been in terms of scalar measures of agglomeration within … each industry. But such measures often fail to distinguish spatial scales of agglomeration. In a previous paper, Mori and … agglomeration based on an explicit method for detecting spatial clusters. The first, designated as the global extent of industrial …

not possible to define as random. Indeed, countries have faced a strong tendency toward agglomeration, namely population … gathers within proper areas like cities, and currently the agglomeration within cities "is an extremely complex amalgam of … the hierarchical structure of the cities within the EU Member States with particular attention on agglomeration forces by …

This paper examines the empirical relationship between agglomeration and economic growth for a panel of 48 Central and … Eastern European regions from 1995 to 2006. By agglomeration, we mean the within-regional concentration of aggregate economic … for endogeneity and spatial dependence. Our empirical analysis provides evidence of a positive effect of agglomeration as …

City), pushed by agglomeration economies in industry. Finally, since the mid-1980s divergence has been mainly driven by …

of agglomeration effects on growth prospects of firms is less clear. Because of the heterogeneity of industries …, different agglomeration mechanisms, or the way how industrial clusters are identified and spatially delimited, the conclusions … separately. Therefore, for each firm a micro-geographically defined agglomeration measure is calculated, which is free of the …

Nowadays, more and more scholars of regional science are interested in the role of agglomeration economies in the … analysis. For the investigation of agglomeration economies in these different types of microregions we apply the location …