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WHY DOES FDI GO WHERE IT GOES? NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE TRANSITION ECONOMIES [PDF]
, 2003 This paper examines the importance of agglomeration economies and institutions vis-à-vis initial conditions and factor endowments in explaining the locational choice of foreign investors.
Nauro F. Campos, Yuko Kinoshita
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Agglomeration economies, accessibility and the spatial choice behavior of relocating firms
Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2011 A growing body of empirical urban economic studies suggests that agglomeration and accessibility externalities are important sources of the uneven distribution of economic activities across cities and regions.
Michiel de Bok, Frank van Oort
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Cogent Economics & Finance, 2021 Agglomeration economies are the external benefits earned from clustering of industries and people in cities. The study assumes unbridled clustering of population in emerging urban agglomerations turning economies into diseconomies. This study empirically
Naghmana Ghafoor +3 more
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THE MAGNITUDE AND CAUSES OF AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES [PDF]
Journal of Regional Science, 2010 ABSTRACT Firms and workers are much more productive in large and dense urban environments. There is substantial evidence of such agglomeration economies based on three approaches. First, on a clustering of production beyond what can be explained by chance or comparative advantage. Second, on spatial patterns in wages and rents.
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Agglomeration and the adjustment of the spatial economy [PDF]
Papers in Regional Science, 2005 We consider the literatures on urban systems and New Economic Geography to examine questions concerning agglomeration and how areas respond to shocks to the economic environment. We first propose a diagrammatic framework to compare the two approaches.
Combes, Pierre Philippe +2 more
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The impact of agglomeration economies on hospital input prices [PDF]
Health Economics Review, 2015 This paper examines the extent to which agglomeration of the hospital service industry enhances the productivity of producing health care. Specifically, we use a large set of private insurance claims from the FAIR Health database to show that an increasing spatial concentration of hospital services results in a decreased cost of obtaining intermediate ...
FRIEDSON, Andrew, LI, Jing
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Industrial Scope of Agglomeration Economies in Brazil [PDF]
The Annals of Regional Science, 2015 The tendency towards urbanization in the emerging world accompanied by the constant pursuit for higher productivity prompts an urge for studies aiming at understanding agglomeration economies. In the context of Brazil, a country with extremely high regional disparities, exploring this issue is important not only for private stakeholders, but also for ...
Ana Maria Bonomi Barufi +1 more
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DIS-ECONOMIES CREATED BY URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS [PDF]
Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie, 2014 The cluster economies represent one of the core concepts of urban economies. According to this concept, economic activity becomes more profitable, recording lower costs in the circumstance in which the set of economic activities is located in the same ...
FRANT FLORIN
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Overview of Economic Potentials of Slovenian Urban Areas for Defining Key Urban Policies [PDF]
Igra Ustvarjalnosti, 2018 The urban development process has been under intensive economic restructuring, socio-demographic and environmental transformations with technological innovations.
Andreja Cirman +2 more
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Effect of Agglomeration Economies on Rice Production in Southeast Nigeria
Ianna Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2023 Background: Rice forms a significant portion of food consumed in most households, and it is one of the few food items whose consumption has no cultural, religious, ethnic, or geographical boundaries in Nigeria.
Onyekwe Chris Nnamdi +3 more
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