Innovations are inherently connected to knowledge transfers. The need of face-to-face contacts to transfer tacit knowledge is commonly argued to cause a regional dimension of innovative activities. The paper presents an alternative explanation based on a model of boundedly rational actors who...

We analyze the distribution of economic activity across space for different types of activity and different levels of aggregation. Not only is this distribution highly uneven (independently of the type of activity and level of aggregation), it is also remarkably regular regarding its size...

Die Regionalökonomie ist von der wissenschaftlichen Peripherie näher in das Zentrum des allgemeinen wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Interesses gerückt. Ursache dafür mögen zum einen ökonomische Entwicklungen der Gegenwart sein. Die abnehmende Bedeutung von Transportkosten und die wachsende...