Heterogeneous firms, agglomeration and economic geography: spatial selection and sorting

By Richard E. Baldwin, Toshihiro Okubo. 2006

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Agglomeration and productivity: evidence from firm-level data (2011, background): “Because the most productive firms are larger and sell more, they have the strongest incentive to locate in large agglomerations to save on transportation costs, regardless of any agglomeration economy (Baldwin and Okubo 2006).”
The productivity of transport infrastructure investment: A meta-analysis of empirical evidence (2013, background): “In addition, lower production and distribution costs induced by transport improvements can also result in scale effects and foster competition levels, which in turn result in higher overall productivity levels due to a natural selection process in favour of more productive firms (Nocke, 2006; Baldwi”
Firm Sorting and Agglomeration (2018, unknown): “Sites are identical ex-ante.”
Models of regional growth: past, present and future (2011, unknown): “Note, this problem has also been more recently noted by Baldwin and Okubo (2005); if the most efficient firms move to large regions (as their model suggests will happen), “average firm productivity in big regions is higher even if there are negligible agglomeration economies in operation” (p.337)…”
A theoretical framework for evolutionary economic geography: industrial dynamics and urban growth as a branching process (2007, background): “First, our model views growth as an evolutionary process of branching through product innovation abstracting from productivity differences between firms and between cities (Baldwin and Okubo, 2006).”
Productive Cities: Sorting, Selection, and Agglomeration (2014, background): “Expressions (8) to (12) fully characterise the short-run equilibrium for the tuple {φ,Φ, w,Π, Y }.”