The economic geography of trade, production, and income: a survey of empirics

HG Overman, S Redding… - … of international trade, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter surveys the empirical literature on the economic geography of trade flows,
factor prices, and the location of production. The discussion is structured around the …

Testing for localization using micro-geographic data

G Duranton, HG Overman - The Review of Economic Studies, 2005 - academic.oup.com
To study the detailed location patterns of industries, and particularly the tendency for
industries to cluster relative to overall manufacturing, we develop distance-based tests of …

[BOOK][B] Regional economics

R Capello - 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
The second edition of Regional Economics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date
treatment of regional economics. This fully revised edition includes key theoretical …

The empirics of agglomeration and trade

K Head, T Mayer - Handbook of regional and urban economics, 2004 - Elsevier
This chapter examines empirical strategies that have been or could be used to evaluate the
importance of agglomeration and trade models. This theoretical approach, widely known as …

[BOOK][B] Multinationals and economic geography: Location, technology and innovation

S Iammarino, P McCann - 2013 - books.google.com
'The world economy is subject to a rapidly increasing globalization, and multinational
enterprises are their major driving force. This brand new book on multinationals and …

Economic geography: A review of the theoretical and empirical literature

SJ Redding - Palgrave handbook of international trade, 2011 - Springer
The uneven distribution of economic activity across space is one of the most striking features
of economic life. Perhaps the clearest visual manifestation of this is the emergence and …

Firm location decisions, regional grants and agglomeration externalities

MP Devereux, R Griffith, H Simpson - Journal of public economics, 2007 - Elsevier
We examine whether discretionary government grants influence where domestic and
multinational firms locate new plants, and how the presence of agglomeration externalities …

The spatial distribution of economic activities in the European Union

PP Combes, HG Overman - Handbook of regional and urban economics, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper considers the spatial distribution of economic activities in the European Union. It
has three main aims.(i) To describe the data that is available in the EU and give some idea …

Dots to boxes: Do the size and shape of spatial units jeopardize economic geography estimations?

A Briant, PP Combes, M Lafourcade - Journal of Urban Economics, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper evaluates, in the context of economic geography estimates, the magnitude of the
distortions arising from the choice of a specific zoning system, which is also known as the …

Trends and determinants of China's industrial agglomeration

J Lu, Z Tao - Journal of urban economics, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper investigates trends and determinants of the geographic concentration of China's
manufacturing industries using large firm-level data for the period of 1998 to 2005. It is found …