The Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in the EU

By Pierre-Philippe Combes, Henry G. Overman. 2003

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Variable returns to agglomeration and the effect of road traffic congestion (2007, background): “Recent studies of localisation are provided by Duranton and Overman [12] and Devereaux et al. [8].”
What is Smart Rural Development (2015, neutral): “Interpretation and application of the smart growth concept in a regional context has been highlighted in several recently published papers (Rodríguez-Pose, 2001; Bilbao-Osorio and Rodríguez-Pose, 2004; Combes and Overman, 2004; Barca et al., 2012; McCann and Ortega-Argil es, 2013).”
Are there really high-tech clusters? The geographic concentration of German manufacturing industries and its determinants (2006, background): “2For a discussion of various measures of geographic concentration see, for example, Devereux et al. (2004) and Combes and Overman (2003) .”
Regional convergence and growth in Europe: understanding patterns and determinants (2011, background): “expected to enjoy higher levels of agglomeration economies, higher levels of productivity and, as a result, better economic performance (Ciccone and Hall, 1996; Head and Mayer, 2003; Combes and Overman, 2004; Rice and Venables, 2004; Geppert et al., 2005).”
Globalization and Local Profiles of Economic Growth and Industrial Change (2016, neutral): “Every city exhibits changes in local 2 Also see Combes (2000) and Brülhart and Mathys (200) for extended analyses, and Combes and Overman (2004) for an overview.”
Disproportionality Measures of Concentration, Specialization, and Localization (2008, background): “and Localization”
Does spatial agglomeration increase national growth? some evidence from Europe (2011, background): “Within economic geography, there has been relatively little interest in ‘national efficiency versus spatial equity’ type issues (one notable exception is Dall’erba and Hewings, 2003). But in economics there has long been debate around the idea of an ‘efficiency-equity’ trade-off (Kuznets, 1955; Will”
Entrepreneurship as an Urban Event? Empirical Evidence from European Cities (2014, methodology): “This unique underlying dataset was collected by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) and is based on regionalized production and trade data for 256 European NUTS-2 regions, 14 sectors and 59 product categories (COMBES and OVERMAN, 2004).”
A Divergence Statistic for Industrial Localization (2005, background): “Then the objective of the present analysis is to characterize the degree of geographic concentration or dispersion of establishments among industries, as exhibited by the establishment location pattern (Nir : ir I R).”
The Dynamics of Local Employment in France (2004, methodology): “Besides firm size simultaneously decreases through a direct competition effect, the last term in equation (8).”