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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"agglomeration economies"”.
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AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES, INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION, AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
… of two essays that study the linkages among agglomeration economies, investment in education, and regional development. In the first essay, I study the impact of a federal educational investment on various aspects of local economies. In the second essay, I examine the spillover effects among …
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Labor specialization, agglomeration economies, and regional resource allocation
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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Agglomeration economies and industrial location in Sao Paulo state, Brazil
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1984.
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Three essays in regional economics: migration, regional portfolio theory, resilience, and agglomeration economies
… we find evidence of labor pooling and agglomeration effects for Colorado's largest counties. A lack of cohesion and consistency across sector-level measures of risk and return suggests that local governments should focus on creating a stable overall business environment, rather than …
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FinTechs and the city : agglomeration economies of financial services firms in Midtown Manhattan
Although agglomeration is widely studied through wages, industrial output, capital, and innovation, research using real estate rates remains sparse; this is the case even though commercial real estate rents may serve as the most effective measure of agglomeration. To remedy this gap in the …
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The effects of agglomeration economies on the productivity of manufacturing local units in Ireland
… of this study is to examine the effects of agglomeration economies on the productivity of manufacturing local units in Ireland. Four types of agglomeration economies are considered in this study. These are internal economies of scale, localization economies, related variety and urbanization …
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Firms in Integrated Urban Models: Agglomeration Economies and the Dynamics of Employment Size Decisions
… and rarely account for the impact of agglomeration economies. I propose an agent-based dynamic programming structural model of firms’ job creation and lay-off decisions. It models the evolutionary trajectory of firm sizes rather than discrete jumps between presumed steady states. Firms …
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Spatial Econometric Modeling of Urban Spatial Structure of Chicago and Seoul in the 1990s: Agglomeration Economies, Information Technology and Commuting
… location/distribution of economic activities: agglomeration economies, information technology, center-orientedness and commuting. The first analysis examines whether agglomeration economies are prominent in shaping urban spatial structure using a simultaneous equation framework. It is found …
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Essays on Agglomeration, Homeownership, and Labor Market Outcomes
… of two essays on the labor market impact of agglomeration economies and that of homeownership. The empirical analyses use different U.S. data and econometric techniques to examine the impact on different labor market outcomes such as volatility of hours worked and men's employment.</p> <p>The …
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Essays on Agglomeration, Access To Medical Services, And the Real Estate Market
… comprises three papers that study how external economies of scale help to explain geographic variation in access to medical services as well as potential implications on the real estate market. Specifically, the first two papers examine whether an increased concentration of the hospital service …
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Essays on wage and productivity disparities: empirical studies with a regional focus in Germany and Brazil
… a discrimination between the effects of several agglomeration externalities on firms’ total factor productivity. The identification of TFP is not trivial, however. I thereby correct for biases due to unobserved output prices and the endogeneity of agglomeration economies. Traditional reasons, …
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Space and networks in the labor market
Agglomeration economies occur when advantages are created and exploited due to the geographic clustering of firms within the same industry. We focus on one of the Marshallian microfoundational processes which produces agglomeration economies, i.e., labor market pooling. According to economic …
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Essays on Foreign Direct Investment, Agglomeration and Productivity
… the role of foreign direct investment and agglomeration economies in the process of industrial development, with a focus on the productivity of manufacturing firms. The first chapter analyzes the importance of the source of foreign direct investment on the performance of domestic Chinese …
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Theoretical and empirical investigations of excessive congestion as a result of market and planning failures
… detail here: market failures from congestion and agglomeration externalities and planning failures from exclusionary zoning and low-density zoning practices. This research is among the first to connect the economics of planning failure with excessive congestion. This research first specifies a …
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The Effects of Regional and Neighborhood Conditions on Location Choice of New Business Establishments
… of regional growth, while the impacts of agglomeration economies are less dominant than previous empirical findings. This indicates that the extent of agglomeration economies, generally increase with scale, is likely affected by medium-sized MSA criteria. The results of in-depth interviews …
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The determinants of agglomeration in Brazil: input-output, labor and knowledge externalities
This research investigates industry agglomeration and coagglomeration patterns in Brazil, and assesses their association with the Marshallian forces that are commonly viewed as sources of agglomeration economies, namely the input-output and labor pooling externalities. Knowledge externalities, the …
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Knowledge-based trade, technical change and location environment: the case of small and medium sized enterprises engaged in advanced producer software services in the South East region
… Whilst the evidence gathered suggests that agglomeration economies are important both in terms of demand and supply hierarchy, this also inhibits wider opportunities for technical change within the region. Established firms within the survey knew in general where and how to get appropriate …
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Complete "and" cooperate through industry cluster public policy : a Connecticut case
… which explain why companies cluster: theories of agglomeration economies and what I call "new theories of competition." This framework examines three dimensions of industries: (1) competitive situation, (2) drivers for clustering, and (3) the need of policy supports. I also examine how the public …
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Microlithography dynamics
… makers, Integrated Circuits (IC) makers, and "agglomeration economies" such as in Europe, Asia and Silicon Valley). I explore the connection of the current microlithography status and its perspectives with the patterns of economy's macrobehavior. I scrutinize hypothesis that, with silicon …
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Essays on the Size Distribution of Cities
… the Size Distribution of Cities: X-treme Economies. The empirical regularity known as Zipf's law or the rank-size rule has motivated development of a theoretical literature to explain it. We examine the assumptions on consumer behavior, particularly about their inability to insure against …
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