This study empirically establishes a link between medieval trade, agglomeration and contemporary regional development in ten European countries. It documents a statistically and economically significant positive relationship between prominent involvement in medieval trade and commercial activities and regional economic development today. Further empirical analyses show that medieval trade posit...

We use the new economic geography perspective to explore the impacts of the Internet on the market linkages of two manufacturing and two service IT industries, and the consequential effects on their agglomeration. We study IT industry agglomeration at the county level across the entire United States during 1998-2004. The industries that we study are: computer manufacturing, semiconductors manuf...

We investigate whether a more concentrated regional industrial structure—the dominance of a few large firms in a given industry in a region—limits agglomeration economies and ultimately diminishes the economic performance of firms in that industry, especially small ones. In an application to three industries using establishment-level production functions and a combination of confidential and pu...

The urban transit system is considered the backbone of any society as it heavily depends on economic progress. railway crucial for system. Based this notion, present research explores industrial agglomeration in China’s prefecture-level and cities from 2010 to 2020. analyses processes rail building, agglomeration, labor due railway’s network development. findings are summarized three main point...

Purpose: This paper identifies those attributes of created and evolved retail agglomeration formats that have a substantial impact on overall attractiveness from the consumers' point of view. From an agglomeration management perspective primary areas of concern are identified and suggestions to increase the competitiveness of diverse agglomeration formats are presented. Design/methodology: Thro...

in recent years, the studies of location play a key role in success and stability of economic activities. location studies are under consideration in both national and international levels. meanwhile, identification of goals and methods of solving location problems have significant importance. the purpose of this paper is to examine spatial distribution of economic activities in 14 zones of esf...

This paper examines the agglomeration benefits of a transportation improvement in a city by modeling the microstructure of urban agglomeration based on monopolistic competition of differentiated intermediate products. Properly extended to include variety distortion in addition to price distortion, Harberger’s measure of excess burden yields the agglomeration benefits. The agglomeration benefits...

Policy for forming an industrial cluster, or industrial cluster policy, plays an important role in developing a region in East Asia. Industrial cluster policy is followed not only in Japan by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, but also in most countries in East Asia such as Malaysia and Singapore. Silicon Valley in the US and Bangalore in India are well-known success stories of devel...