Agglomeration economies and urban productivity

Gutierrez, Tania Paola Torres; Ordóñez, Jessica

doi:10.18335/region.v6i1.242

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“…The Localization Economies insist on the reduction of production costs associated with the concentration of productive, commercial, and financial activities. Thus, it is associated with a decrease in corporative costs and an increase in the quality of labor, intermediate goods, and knowledge [5,6]. The economies of urbanization insist on the benefits offered by the proximity of the final markets, which allows increasing the contact with clients and final consumers.…”

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confidence: 99%

Sustaining What Is Unsustainable: A Review of Urban Sprawl and Urban Socio-Environmental Policies in North America and Western Europe

Bueno-Suárez

Coq-Huelva

2020

Sustainability

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Urban sprawl and its economic, social, and environmental consequences are central issues for approaching more sustainable forms of life and production. This review provides a broad theoretical exploration of the main features of urban sprawl but also of sustainable urban policies in Western Europe and North America. Urban sprawl can be observed in both continents, as the search for higher standards of economic, social, and environmental sustainability is also an essential feature of urban governance in the last years. Urban sprawl has been slightly weaker in Western Europe, as its are cities generally more compact. Moreover, in Western Europe, urban sprawl has sometimes been confronted with ex-ante preventive policies. However, in North America, urban sprawl from the 1950s has been an essential element of the social ordering and, thus, of the American way of life. In both cases, urban sprawl has generated successive rounds of accumulation of built capital, which is currently managed in sustainable ways essentially through ex-post and palliative measures, that is, trying to “sustain what is unsustainable”. In other words, the idea is to make urban sprawl more sustainable but without altering its main morphological elements.

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confidence: 99%

Sustaining What Is Unsustainable: A Review of Urban Sprawl and Urban Socio-Environmental Policies in North America and Western Europe

Bueno-Suárez

Coq-Huelva

2020

Sustainability

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“…A contribution of the present paper is its empirical approach to estimating local markets distance effects in spatial analyses by carefully mapping the spatial returns to scale function. The main specification is the following: (2) where gdp i is a output of sector; pod i is a population density; pol i is a measure of predicted local potential; trd i is a retail and wholesale trade; ttd i is a exports and imports; trc i is a trucking; fms i is a firm size; sbb i is a spatial boundary between regions; tsb i is a spatial transboundary; x stands for a vector of variables that control for additional predictors that are assumed to have an influence on regional disparities; and ε is a heteroscedastic error. In this study local market potential as relative notions of space put forward by Garretsen et al [11].…”

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“…A number of existing studies on the framework of New economic geography (NEG) consider factors affecting the spatial distribution of resources in emerging local markets. For example, the empirical work of Ezcurra et al [1], Torres-Gutierrez et al [2] and Abreu et al [3] substantiates the influence of trade spending, population density, trucking costs, firm size on spatial lag and firm's productivity in developing country's manufacturing sector.…”

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Method for Monitoring of Managing the Modernization of Regional Economy

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This paper proposes a new approach for monitoring of managing the modernisation of regional economic. The model built on proposed methodology will make it possible to smooth out the influence of non-urban areas on the unevenness of economic activity in spatial development. This paper has two goals. The first is to provide a new compilation of data on spatial distribution of economic activity at the sub-regional level. This data set allows us to monitoring of different indicators within macroregions such as Siberia. The second goal is to construct an instrument that helps to overcome the endogeneity problem using new economic geography hypothesis about the mechanisms of distribution of economic activity. Section 2 describes the data and method that we have proposed, discusses the construction of the Theil indexes using these data at the sub-federal and the sub-regional level. Section 3 presents the correlations between spatial distribution of economic activity and local market potential, discusses the robustness of the results; and the last section concludes.

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“…The spatial concentration of financial markets implies that money tends to flow and accumulate in specific spatial areas, and are not evenly distributed in space [2,42], generating critical challenges to subnational companies accessing external financing sources. In addition, the role of urban agglomerations in providing better access to growth is a topic that has attracted considerable research and policy attention in recent years [46][47][48]. According to location theory, large cities create better opportunities for increasing returns by accumulating knowledge, the combination of labor, infrastructure, and inputs.…”

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Rural-Urban Linkages: Regional Financial Business Services’ Integration into Chilean Agri-Food Value Chains

Sanguinet

García-García

2023

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The spatial structure of urban-related industries and agri-food value chains is important for promoting sustainable linkages. Using an interregional input-output framework, this study explores the geography of inter-industry linkages between financial business services and the Chilean agri-food related industries from a subnational perspective. This framework allows adding evidence on rural-related economic activities and financial business services, covering Chilean internal geography, which has a regional concentration of both the business services supply and the agriculturally engaged regions, potentially blocking territorial competitiveness. Our findings indicate that the relationship between value-added and trade is consistent with the vertical fragmentation of domestic production associated with returns to scale. Consequently, while the value-added financial services are more intense in trade for global value chains, this occurs in regions specialized in agri-food industries and services. Our findings also show that Southern Chilean regions engaged in primary agricultural production have lower levels of financial services directly and indirectly embedded in both domestic and global value chains trade, thus highlighting an uneven geography of vertical integration within the country.

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Agglomeration economies and urban productivity

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

Sustaining What Is Unsustainable: A Review of Urban Sprawl and Urban Socio-Environmental Policies in North America and Western Europe

Sustaining What Is Unsustainable: A Review of Urban Sprawl and Urban Socio-Environmental Policies in North America and Western Europe

Method for Monitoring of Managing the Modernization of Regional Economy

Rural-Urban Linkages: Regional Financial Business Services’ Integration into Chilean Agri-Food Value Chains

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