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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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Structural Preconditions of City Competitiveness. Some Empirical Results for European Cities
The Death and Life of Great British Cities∗
TL;DR: In this paper , a dynamic spatial model of cities is developed to isolate the forces which govern their life and death, and they find that the long-run dynamics of English and Welsh cities are explained to a large extent by such dynamic externalities à la Jacobs.
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Metropolitan Regions and Export Renewal
Lina Bjerke,Charlie Karlsson +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that products with a high specialisation in the metropolitan region have a tendency to be successful in the non-metropolitan regions subsequent years and that this export product diffusion does not seem to be related to a location in the immediate proximity to the metropolitan regions.
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Diversifying Hawai‘i's Specialized Economy: A Spatial Economic Perspective
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examine a spatial economics perspective to explain why Hawai'i is so specialized, and sketch policy for diversification and growth, by targeting industries that use related know-how, or a Hawai‘i-specific resource, to access productivity gains from the scale of related and location -bound industries.
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The geography of breakthrough invention in the United States over the 20th century
TL;DR: In this article , the authors study the geographical distribution of breakthrough invention in the U.S. during the 20th century and propose a theory to interpret why these changes occurred, emphasizing how changes in inventors' institutional and communication technology environments influence the geographical locations that are advantageous for breakthrough invention.
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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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