Do compact cities have higher efficiencies of agglomeration economies? A dynamic panel model with compactness indicators

Y Yao, H Pan, X Cui, Z Wang - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Compact development is proposed to preserve land resources as well as promote
agglomeration economies. This paper adopts a multi-indicator system of compact cities …

Trade openness, export structure, and labor productivity in develo** countries: Evidence from panel VAR approach

KYT Kacou, Y Kassouri, TH Evrard… - Structural Change and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the relationship between trade openness and labor productivity by
accounting for the level of openness and the structure of exports in 61 develo** countries …

Does the opening of China railway express promote urban total factor productivity? New evidence based on SDID and SDDD model

C Li, J Zhang, Y Lyu - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
As a new path for the Chinese government to deepen reform, expand opening up and
promote economic development, the opening of CRE may have an important impact on …

Market size, competition, and firm productivity for manufacturing in China

C Ding, Y Niu - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the selection effects of market size on firm productivity by using firm-
level data on Chinese manufacturing industries for the period 1998–2007. China's provinces …

Where cities fail to triumph: The impact of urban location and local collaboration on innovation in Norway

RD Fitjar, A Rodríguez‐Pose - Journal of Regional Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The role of cities in fostering innovation has for long been taken for granted. Agglomeration
and the knowledge spillovers generated in dense urban environments have been …

Size and productivity: a conditional approach for Italian pharmaceutical sector

P Toma - Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2020 - Springer
In this study, an appropriate nonparametric two-step approach to conditional efficiencies is
used to investigate how size and time affect the performance of companies. Using a dataset …

Heterogeneous firms and the north–south divide in Italy

A Rungi, F Biancalani - Italian Economic Journal, 2019 - Springer
In this paper, we document how the productivity gap between firms in the North and in the
South of Italy is essentially due to a difference in local competitive pressures, lower in the …

The agglomeration of knowledge-intensive business services firms

V Di Giacinto, G Micucci, A Tosoni - The Annals of Regional Science, 2020 - Springer
We analyse the geographic localization and the productivity of knowledge-intensive
business services (KIBS) in Italy, using both census data and balance sheet data at the firm …

Exploring the entropy-complexity nexus. Evidence from Italy

R Antonietti, C Burlina - Economia Politica, 2023 - Springer
Combining evolutionary economic geography and the recombinant knowledge approach,
we test whether the level of entropy in available capabilities affects the level of a region's …

[HTML][HTML] Productivity advantage of large cities for creative industries

CY Ho, Y Sheng - Papers in Regional Science, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper examines the productivity advantage of large cities for creative industries (CIs) in
China. Using Chinese firm‐level data for CIs from 2012 to 2014, we find that agglomeration …