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Nursery Cities: Urban Diversity, Process Innovation and the Life-Cycle of Products
Gilles Duranton,Diego Puga +1 more
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In this paper, a simple model of process innovation is proposed, where firms learn about their ideal production process by making prototypes and switch to mass-production and relocate to specialised cities with lower costs.Abstract:
A simple model of process innovation is proposed, where firms learn about their ideal production process by making prototypes. We build around this a dynamic general equilibrium model, and derive conditions under which diversified and specialised cities coexist. New products are developed in diversified cities, trying processes borrowed from different activities. On finding their ideal process, firms switch to mass-production and relocate to specialised cities with lower costs. When in equilibrium, this configuration welfare-dominates those with only diversified or only specialised cities. We find strong evidence of this relocation pattern in establishment relocations across French employment areas 1993u1996.read more
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Metropolitan Regions : Preconditions and Strategies for Growth and Development in the Global Economy
TL;DR: The importance of metropolitan regions as national growth and development engines, and in particular as driving forces in national as well as global innovation processes is well recognized as discussed by the authors, and the role of metropolitan region as nodes in national and international networks and as nodes of knowledge generation and innovation is highlighted.
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Town and city jobs: How your job is different in another location
TL;DR: This paper showed that a job in a large city contains a different task package than the same task in a small city and that the division of tasks is more extensive in large cities than in small cities.
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Socio-cultural Diversity and Urban Buzz
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose the foundation for analysing the economic dynamics of cities in terms of competitive behavior and rapid economic dynamics, where creative people and innovative entrepreneurs are located.
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Concentration and growth in latin american countries
Miguel Atienza,Patricio Aroca +1 more
TL;DR: For example, this paper showed that when a country achieves a GDP per capita level of $10,000, an increase in the level of urban concentration negatively affects the national growth rate.
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Adjustment Costs and Factor Demand: New Evidence From Firms’ Real Estate
Antonin Bergeaud,Simon Ray +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the cost associated with corporate relocation to explore the effect of the adjustment costs of the premises size on factor demand, and find that higher adjustment costs constrain relocation and reduce job creation of the most dynamic firms.
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Principles of Economics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the general relations of demand, supply, and value in terms of land, labour, capital, and industrial organization, with an emphasis on the fertility of land.
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The Economy of Cities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the economy of cities and the main social problems that humanity has and the greatest source of creativity, innovation and development opportunities to solve those problems, which is relevant for a number of reasons: first of all, because most of the planet's population is grouped in them.
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Growth in Cities
Edward L. Glaeser,Edward L. Glaeser,Edward L. Glaeser,Hedi Kallal,Jose A. Scheinkman,Jose A. Scheinkman,Jose A. Scheinkman,Andrei Shleifer,Andrei Shleifer +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a new data set on the growth of large industries in 170 U.S. cities between 1956 and 1987 and found that local competition and urban variety, but not regional specialization, encourage employment growth in industries.
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Innovation in cities: Science-based diversity, specialization and localized competition
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the effect of the composition of economic activity on innovation and test whether the specialization of economic activities within a narrow concentrated set of activities is more conducive to knowledge spillovers or if diversity, by bringing together complementary activities, better promotes innovation.
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