Is Specialization Good for Regional Economic Development?

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Housing, urban growth and inequalities: The limits to deregulation and upzoning in reducing economic and spatial inequality (2019, background): “This is because urban productivity and incomes appear to rise up to a certain point, but are also shaped by what a city specialises in and by the absolute size of a particular specialised agglomeration of firms (Kemeny and Storper, 2014).”
The geography of COVID‐19 and the structure of local economies: The case of Italy (2020, background): “This also suggests that increasing returns to scale, internal and external to firms, and tradability are interconnected elements (e.g. Krugman, 1991a; Kemeny and Storper, 2015).”
Functional specialisation in trade (2018, background): “As such, it provides a natural delineation between traded and non-traded activities which cannot be made using only employment or industry statistics (Kemeny and Storper, 2015).”
Related and unrelated variety as regional drivers of enterprise productivity and innovation: A multilevel study (2016, methodology): “…are associated with productivity at an enterprise level studies, the Herfindahl–Hirschman index has in fact been applied to model diversity and specialization (e.g. Kemeny and Storper, 2015); yet these concepts do not consider that industrial variety or diversity may be related or unrelated.”