a r t i c l e i n f o If localization economies are present, firms within denser industry concentrations should exhibit higher levels of performance than more isolated firms. Nevertheless, research in industrial organization that has fo-cused on the influences on firm survival has largely ignored the potential effects from agglomeration. Recent studies in urban and regional economics suggest th...

This paper employs a homogenous firms database to investigate industry localization in European countries. More specifically, we compare, across industries and countries, the predictions of two of the most popular localization indices, i.e., the Ellison and Glaeser index (Ellison and Glaeser, 1997) and the Duranton and Overman index (Duranton and Overman, 2005). We find that, independently from...

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...

INTRODUCTION Globalization is increasingly integrating the economies and the societies of the world. Now, products created in one nation are often marketed to a wide range of international consumers. Similarly, the rapid diffusion of online media has led to an increase in cross-border interactions on both a social and a professional level. Differing cultural expectations, however, can result in...

The competitive advantages of regional clusters are the focus of much scholarly and policy attention. The literature relies heavily on the concept of external economies to explain the advantages derived from the spatial clustering of economic activity. This article compares two of America’s leading technology regions—California’s Silicon Valley and Massachusetts’ Route 128, to suggest the limit...

In this paper, the state-of-the-art on the field of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in Latin America is presented. Its main contribution consists in the localization of common objectives for the majority of the countries in the region. Although the countries are very heterogeneous from the cultural and geographical perspectives, there are many common factors that can be explo...

T his paper aims to understand the structure and determinants of international bank l ending among APEC economies. Specifically, this paper first aims to analyze whether Australia Canada Japan Chinese Taipei and the United States, which are the only APEC members for which international borrowing data are available, tend to lend more intensively to other APEC members than to non-APEC countries ....