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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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Manifestations spatiales de la congestion et localisation des emplois et des ménages
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analysis bibliographique sur les questions de croissance et de structure urbaine, suivie d'une analyse, de nature systemique, de la congestion des transports.
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The impact of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act on the spatial distribution of high productivity households and economic welfare
Daniele Coen-Pirani,Holger Sieg +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a dynamic spatial equilibrium model to evaluate the impact of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 on the distribution of economic activity and aggregate welfare, and showed that the tax reform is likely to lead to a relocation of older high-productivity households to low-cost cities.
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Wissensintensive Unternehmensdienste, Wissens-Spillovers und regionales Wachstum. Teilprojekt 3: Zur Standortstruktur von wissensintensiven Unternehmensdiensten Fakten, Bestimmungsgründe, regionalpolitische Herausforderungen
Matthias Firgo,Peter Mayerhofer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, empirische Evidenz zur raumlichen Verteilung wissensintensiver Unternehmensdienste (KIBS) in Osterreich and ihren bestimmungsgrunden prasentiert.
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The City System Paradigm: New Frontiers
TL;DR: A survey of recent developments of positive as well as normative theories of city systems can be found in this article, where the authors focus on the following questions: what are the factors that lead to the formation of cities? When do cities specialize in production, and when do they diversify, when do both specialized cities and diversified cities coexist? What determines the number and sizes of cities of different types in an economy? What are factors that determine skill distribution and income disparities among different types of cities.
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Mid-sized French Cities and their niche competitiveness
Claude Lacour,Sylvette Puissant +1 more
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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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