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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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Location factors and agglomeration economies in the hotel industry: the case of Spain
European Journal of Management and Business Economics, 2022 PurposeThis research investigates the effect of accessibility to points of tourist interest (buffer) and direct and indirect spatial spillover effects of agglomeration economies on tourism industry revenues in Spain.Design/methodology/approachData were ...
Andrea Valenzuela-Ortiz +2 more
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Agglomeration Economies in Developing Countries: A Meta-Analysis
Policy Research Working Papers, 2021 Recent empirical work suggests that there are large agglomeration gains from working and living in developing country cities. These estimates find that doubling city size is associated with an increase in productivity by 19 percent in China, 12 percent ...
Arti Grover, S. Lall, Jon Timmis
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The billion pound drop: the Blitz and agglomeration economies in London
Journal of Economic Geography, 2021 We exploit locally exogenous variation from the Blitz bombings to quantify the effect of redevelopment frictions and identify agglomeration economies at a micro-geographic scale.
G. Dericks, H. Koster
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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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Urban agglomeration and regional economic performance connectedness: Thin ice in developing regions
Research in GlobalizationThis paper evaluates the evolution of urban agglomeration from 2000 to 2020 in 66 developing and developed economies from Asia, Europe, and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and examines how urban agglomeration changes impinge on economic performance changes. The
Isaiah Maket +2 more
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THE INFLUENCE OF FIRMS STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS ON THE DEGREE OF AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES ENJOYED AMONGST FIRMS IN THE LAGOS REGION, NIGERIA [PDF]
Analele Universităţii din Oradea: Seria Geografie, 2015 Agglomeration economies is a potent tool in socio-economic revamping, rejuvenation and sustenance of regions, this is as a result of the impulse it transmitted through the multiplier effect it is capable of generated.
FAGBOHUNKA Adejompo
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