• This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Geography following peer review. The de nitive publisher-authenticated version [HARRISON, J., 2007. From competitive regions to competitive cityregions: a new orthodoxy, but some old mistakes. Journal of Economic Geography, 7 (3), pp. 311-332 ] is available online at: http://joeg.oxfo...

Cultural Diversity and Entrepreneurship: A Regional Analysis for Germany* In this paper we investigate the determinants of entrepreneurial activity in a cross section of German regions for the period 1998-2005. Departing from the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, the focus of our analysis is on the role of the regional environment and, in particular, knowledge and cultural diversi...

Using German district data we estimate the structural parameters of a new economic geography model as developed by Helpman (1998) and Hanson (1998). The advantage of the Helpman-Hanson model is that it incorporates the fact that agglomeration of economic activity increases the prices of local (non-tradable) services, like housing. This model thereby provides an intuitively appealing spreading f...

this paper reviews the relationship between inflation rate and minimum wage in iran’s economy over the 1969-2005. according to the economic literature, there is a narrow relationship between inflation rate and minimum wage. some economists believe in increased inflation due to minimum wage. the other group of economists considers the increased inflation as a cause for increasing minimum wage. t...

In the debate on globalisation and wage inequality HeckscherOhlin theory has featured prominently. However, a neglected mechanism by which globalisation affects labour market outcomes is through the increased tradability of producer services. By integrating elements of Heckscher-Ohlin theory, the economic geography literature and the literature on producer services linkages, we show that the im...

In my first progress report (Yeung, 2000a) I concluded that a more pluralistic industrial geography in recent years has gone beyond conventional economic issues by incorporating some ‘new’ economic knowledges and by providing good glimpses of alternative worlds of industrial change. This incorporation relates to the introduction of social and cultural understandings of conventional economic iss...

Non-traditional source countries of FDI play an increasingly important role, notably in developing host countries. This raises the question of whether the location choices differ systematically between traditional and non-traditional source countries. We perform Logit and Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood estimations to assess the determinants of bilateral FDI flows. We find that economic geogr...