Firms and workers are much more productive in large and dense urban environments. There is substantial evidence of such agglomeration economies based on three aproaches. First, on a clustering of production beyond what can be explained by chance or comparative advantage. Second, on spatial patterns in wages and rents. Third, on systematic variations in productivity with the urban environment. H...

The paper estimates agglomeration e!ects for France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. Estimation takes into account endogeneity of the spatial distribution of employment and spatial "xed e!ects. Empirical results suggest that agglomeration e!ects in these European countries are only slightly smaller than agglomeration e!ects in the US: the estimated elasticity of (average) labor productivity ...

The regional economy and the regional logistics are interdependent unity, the coordinated development of the two aspects have important significance on the ascension of regional overall competitiveness. With the development of the central region strategy step by step, Wuhan urban agglomeration has good economic environment for the developing of regional logistics. Since the 11th Five-year Devel...

Economies of agglomeration are central to the understanding of the emergence of industrial clustering. However, existing models that incorporate such agglomeration economies have been largely neglecting the vast amount of empirical evidence on inter-sectoral differences in the patterns of industrial concentration. In this paper, we propose a baseline model of firm location in presence of dynami...

Countries compete for new FDI investment, whereas stocks of FDI generate agglomeration benefits and are potentially subject to extortionary taxation. We study the interaction between these aspects in a simple vintage capital framework with discrete time and an infinite horizon, focussing on Markov perfect equilibrium. We show that the equilibrium taxation destabilizes agglomeration advantages. ...

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...

In this article, we introduce a novel geometrical index δagg, which is associated with the Euler number and is obtained by an image processing procedure for a given digital picture of aggregated particles such that δagg exhibits the degree of the agglomerations of the particles. In the previous work (Matsutani, Shimosako, Wang, Appl. Math. Modeling 37 (2013), 4007–4022), we proposed an algorith...

This paper studies how firm heterogeneity in terms of productivity affects the balance between agglomeration and dispersion forces in the presence of pecuniary externalities through a selection model of monopolistic competition with variable mark-ups. It shows that firm heterogeneity matters. However, whether it shifts the balance from agglomeration to dispersion or the other way round depends ...

Firms and workers are much more productive in large and dense urban environments. There is substantial evidence of such agglomeration economies based on three aproaches. First, on a clustering of production beyond what can be explained by chance or comparative advantage. Second, on spatial patterns in wages and rents. Third, on systematic variations in productivity with the urban environment. H...

The article presents the essential issues and algorithm of the methodology of a four-step transportation model, which was constructed in order to carrying out a household interview survey. The results of this research are source data for determining the travel behaviour of the users of transportation systems, including intelligent transport systems (ITS). The presented issues regarding the surv...