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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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Agglomeration economies in Australian cities : productivity benefits of increasing urban density and accessibility
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measure the magnitude by which employment productivity in a range of industries in Australian cities is influenced by agglomeration and offer a method for these estimations that is suitable given the types of data collected and made available nationally.
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The accessibility in Land-Use Transport Interaction models : four essays on location choice models
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the effect of accessibilite on the performance of different types of choix in the context of localisation of menages and entreprises.
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Regional Industrial Restructuring
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the role of the ecosystem for regional industrial restructuring and highlighted the importance of asset modification for industrial restructuring, and concluded that thin regional innovation systems (RISs) mainly support the reuse of existing assets which mainly leads to regional industrial path extension.
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Industrial clusters in the long run: evidence from Million-Rouble plants in China
TL;DR: In this article, the authors exploit a short-lived cooperation program between the U.S. and China, which led to the construction of 156 "Million-Rouble plants" in the 1950s, and study the long run impact of these factories on local economic activity.
Agglomeration Economies and the High-Tech Computer
Nancy Wallace,Donald Walls +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of agglomeration on the production decisions of firms in the high-tech computer cluster were investigated and it was shown that there are few benefits associated with firm locations in labor markets with large numbers of employees in the computer manufacturing sectors.
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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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