Agglomeration economies with consistent productivity estimates

Urban Productivity: Who Benefits from Agglomeration Economies?

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Agglomeration Economies: Microdata Panel Estimates from Canadian Manufacturing

This paper identifies the main sources of urban increasing returns, after Marshall. The geographical distance across which externalities flow is also examined. We bring to bear on these questions plant-level data organized in the form of a panel across the years 1989 and 1999. Plant-level production functions are estimated across the Canadian manufacturing sector as a whole and for five broad i...

Problems with regional production functions and estimates of agglomeration economies: A caveat emptor for regional scientists

Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies

Geographically concentrated industry activity creates pools of skilled labor and specialized suppliers, and increases opportunities for knowledge spillovers. The strategic value of these agglomeration economies may vary by firm, depending upon the relative value of each economy, and upon firm and agglomeration economy traits. To better determine when a firm will be attracted to agglomeration ec...

Regional Industrial Structure and Agglomeration Economies: An Analysis of Productivity in Three Manufacturing Industries

We investigate whether a more concentrated regional industrial structure—the dominance of a few large firms in a given industry in a region—limits agglomeration economies and ultimately diminishes the economic performance of firms in that industry, especially small ones. In an application to three industries using establishment-level production functions and a combination of confidential and pu...