spillovers as a source of industrial agglomeration, but the well-known 'observational equivalence' means little is known about … the relative importance of these. This paper uses the difference in the temporal scope of the agglomeration source to …

This paper aims to elaborate the role of agglomeration effects on countries' competitiveness and entrepreneurial … characterized by spatial agglomeration (concentration) or deglomeration (deconcentration) processes, and its competitiveness and … cities, as important nodes of innovation and creativity, is derived from agglomeration effects. This general assumption …

relational proximity influences economic development more intensively than effects of agglomeration and geographical proximity do. …

The question whether agglomeration effects are of importance for regional development has a long tradition in regional … science. This paper asks if regional characteristics and specifically ag-glomeration effects influence the performance of … regional agglomeration effects for Germany. Second, while earlier papers looked only at few sectors of the economy or only at …

The present work assess the effects of MAR and Jacob's type agglomeration economies on a sample of firms in the … frontier function and allows agglomeration economies to enter as inputs and/or as factors reducing inefficiency. Results re …-confirm that the effects of agglomeration economies are industry specific. In our study, the machineries industry benefits from MAR …

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 …

The spatial agglomeration of economic activities play a crucial role on productivity but the composition of such an … agglomeration is what really matters. There exists an ongoing debate between the predominance of the effects of agglomeration from … in Ecuador, a country of Latin American region for which literature gives little attention. When measuring agglomeration …