| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 364 pages) : illustrations |
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A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report |
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National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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| Contents |
Estimating agglomeration economies with history, geology, and worker effects / Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, and Sébastien Roux -- Dispersion in house price and income growth across markets: facts and theories / Joseph Gyourko, Christopher Mayer, and Todd Sinai -- Cities as six-by-six-mile squares: Zipf's law? / Thomas J. Holmes and Sanghoon Lee -- Labor pooling as a source of agglomeration: an empirical investigation / Henry G. Overman and Diego Puga -- Urbanization, agglomeration, and co-agglomeration of service industries / Jed Kolko -- Who benefits whom in the neighborhood? : demographics and retail product geography / Joel Waldfogel -- Understanding agglomerations in healthcare / Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra -- The agglomeration of U.S. ethnic inventors / William R. Kerr -- Small establishments/big effects: agglomeration, industrial organization and entrepreneurship / Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange -- Did the death of distance hurt Detroit and help New York? / Edward L. Glaeser and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto -- New evidence on trends in the cost of urban agglomeration / Matthew E. Kahn |
| Summary |
When firms and people are located near each other in cities and in industrial clusters, they benefit in various ways, including by reducing the costs of exchanging goods and ideas. This title includes essays that examine the reasons why economic activity continues to cluster together despite the falling costs of moving goods and information |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Industrial clusters -- Congresses
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Industrial location -- Congresses
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Business networks -- Congresses
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Regional economics -- Congresses
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Space in economics -- Congresses
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Business networks
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Industrial clusters
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Industrial location
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Regional economics
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Space in economics
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Agglomeration Wirtschaft
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Regionalwirtschaft
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Glaeser, Edward L. (Edward Ludwig), 1967-
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| ISBN |
9780226297927 |
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0226297926 |
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