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productivity and the other decreasing transportation costs, and in which agglomeration economies lead to persistence in urban …
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making agglomeration more important. We argue that the Internet will produce more of the same forces for deagglomeration, but … offsetting and possibly stronger tendencies toward agglomeration. Increasingly the economy is dependent on the transmission of …
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We show that agglomeration forces can reverse standard international-tax-competition results. Closer integration may … agglomeration forces create quasi-rents that can be taxed without inducing delocation. This suggests that the tax game is something … 'periphery' countries. Since agglomeration rents are a bell-shaped function of the level of integration, the equilibrium tax gap …
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When economic activity is concentrated over space or over time, it is more efficient. Most production occurs in geographic hot spots, and most production occurs between 9 and 12 in the morning and 1 to 5 in the afternoon on weekdays. The thick-market efficiencies that encourage the concentration...
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This review discusses frontier topics in economic geography as they relate to firms and agglomeration economies. We … the vast scope for enhancements of our picture of agglomeration with the new data that are emerging …
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This paper studies the sources of agglomeration economies in cities. We begin by introducing a simple dynamic spatial … large, though there can be exceptions. Thus, dynamic agglomeration appears to be driven by cross-industry effects. Once we … control for these cross-industry agglomeration effects, we find a strong negative relationship between city size and city …
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This handbook chapter studies the theoretical micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies. We distinguish three … precise characterisation of some of the main theoretical underpinnings of urban agglomeration economies, to discuss modelling … issues that arise when working with these tools, and to compare different sources of agglomeration economies in terms of the …
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Historically, urban growth required enough development to grow and transport significant agricultural surpluses or a government effective enough to build an empire. But there has been an explosion of poor mega-cities over the last thirty years. A simple urban model illustrates that in closed...
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We study the impact of international long-distance flights on the global spatial allocation of economic activity. To identify causal effects, we exploit variation due to regulatory and technological constraints which give rise to a discontinuity in connectedness between cities at a distance of...
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larger cities, but also to greater frictions through congestion and other negative effects of agglomeration. Using data on …
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