Chapter 60 Agglomeration and regional growth

Baldwin, Richard; Martin, Philippe

doi:10.1016/s1574-0080(04)80017-8

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“…Finally, the positive connection between agglomeration, industry concentration and regional economic growth is reported by several theoretical studies (e.g., Baldwin and Martin 2004, Martin and Ottaviano 2001, Yamamoto 2003or Bertinelli and Black 2004 linking growth, e.g. through innovations and agglomeration by combining standard NEG and endogenous growth models.…”

Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 71%

Does medieval trade still matter? Historical trade centers, agglomeration and contemporary economic development

Wahl

2016

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis study empirically establishes a link between medieval trade, agglomeration and contemporary regional development in ten European countries. It documents a statistically and economically significant positive relationship between prominent involvement in medieval trade and commercial activities and regional economic development today. Further empirical analyses show that medieval trade positively influenced city development both during the medieval period and in the long run; they also reveal a robust connection between medieval city growth and contemporary regional agglomeration and industry concentration. A mediation analysis indicates that a long-lasting effect of medieval trade on contemporary regional development is indeed transmitted via its effect on agglomeration and industry concentration. This research thus highlights the long-run importance of medieval trade in shaping the development of cities as well as the contemporary spatial distribution of economic activity throughout Europe. The path-dependent regional development processes caused by medieval commercial activities help explain the observed persistent regional development differences across the European countries considered.

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Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 71%

Does medieval trade still matter? Historical trade centers, agglomeration and contemporary economic development

Wahl

2016

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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“…Following Melitz and Ottaviano (2008), they rule out labour mobility across locations, although extensions to the basic framework can be made. 25 To distinguish between agglomeration and selection effects, they nest a generalized version of Melitz and Ottaviano (2008) and a model of agglomeration in the spirit of Fujita and Ogawa (1982) and Lucas and Rossi-Hansberg (2002). In larger (more dense) locations, the firm productivity distribution is left-truncated due to more demanding selection, but also right-shifted and dilated due to agglomeration.…”

Section: Geography With Limited Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The localized nature of these externalities, due to frictions in the exchange of ideas between regions, drive the agglomeration of innovation and can lead to cumulative causation in the location of production and innovation. Baldwin and Martin (2004) survey several different specifications of these models and tease out their main insights. Cumulative causation implies the joint agglomeration of innovation and production.…”

Section: Non-ordered Spacementioning

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Regional Growth and Regional Decline

Breinlich

Ottaviano

Temple

2014

Handbook of Economic Growth

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Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods and data. We survey a range of modelling traditions, and some formal approaches to the 'hard problem' of regional economics, namely the joint consideration of agglomeration and growth. We also review empirical methods and findings based on natural experiments, spatial discontinuity designs, and structural models. Throughout, we give considerable attention to regional growth in developing countries. Finally, we highlight the potential importance of processes that are specific to regional decline, and which deserve greater research attention.

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“…The third avenue along which NEG theory developed was through the merger of NEG models with growth theory. By incorporating insight from the endogenous growth theory, it turned out to be possible to come up with NEG growth models (see Baldwin & Martin, 2004). A final line of theoretical progress concerns the realization that the 'one size fits all' approach of the initial NEG models had to be altered.…”

Section: The Need To Reconsider Geography and History Within Negmentioning

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Rethinking (New) Economic Geography Models: Taking Geography and History More Seriously

Garretsen¹,

Martin

2010

Spatial Economic Analysis

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Two aspects of New Economic Geography models are often singled out for criticism, especially by geographers: the treatment of geography, typically as a pre-given, fixed and highly idealized abstract geometric space; and the treatment of history, typically as 'logical' time (the movement to equilibrium in a model's solution space) rather than real history. In this paper we examine the basis for these criticisms, and explore how far and in what ways NEG models might be made more credible with respect to their representation of geography and history, and particularly whether and to what extent the work of geographers themselves provides some insights in this regard. We argue that the conceptualization of space and time is in fact a challenge for both NEG theorists and economic geographers, and that, notwithstanding their ontological and epistemological differences, both groups would benefit from an interchange of ideas on this front.Réinventer les (nouveaux) modèles de géographie économique: comment prendre la géographie et l'histoire plus au sérieux RÉSUMÉ Deux aspects particuliers des mode`les de la nouvelle ge´ographie e´conomique sont souvent l'objet de critiques, notamment de la part des ge´ographes, a`savoir: le traitement de la ge´ographie, ge´ne´ralement comme un espace ge´ome´trique abstrait pre´de´termine´, fixe et extrêmement ide´alise´, et le traitement de l'histoire, ge´ne´ralement comme un cre´neau 'logique' (un mouvement vers l'e´quilibre dans un espace a`solution du modèle) et non pas comme l'histoire re´elle. Dans la pre´sente communication, nous nous penchons sur le fondement de ces critiques, et nous examinons dans quelle mesure les modèles de la NEG pourraient devenir plus plausibles sur le plan de la façon dont ils repre´sentent la ge´ographie et l'histoire, notamment si le travail des ge´ographes apporte de nouveaux e´le´ments sur cette question, et dans quelle mesure. Nous soutenons que la conceptualisation de l'espace et du temps constitue, en fait, un de´fi tant pour les the´oriciens de la NEG que pour les ge´ographes e´conomiques, et qu'au-delà de leurs diffe´rences ontologiques et e´piste´mologiques, un e´change d'ide´es sur ce sujet serait be´ne´fique pour ces deux groupes. Spatial Economic Analysis, Vol. 5, No. 2, June 2010Reconsideració n de modelos de (Nueva) Geografía Econó mica: Tomando más en serio la geografía y la historia EXTRACTO A menudo, existen dos aspectos particulares de los modelos de Nueva Geografía Econo´mica que reciben críticas, especialmente por parte de los geo´grafos: el tratamiento de la geografía, típicamente como un espacio geome´trico abstracto altamente idealizado, fijo y predeterminado; y, el tratamiento de la historia, típicamente como un tiempo 'lo´gico' (el movimiento hacia el equilibrio en el espacio de solucio´n de un modelo), en lugar de como historia real. En este estudio examinamos la base de estas críticas y exploramos hasta que´punto y de que´formas, los modelos NEG podrían hacerse ma´s creíbles con respecto a su representacio´n de la geogr...

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Chapter 60 Agglomeration and regional growth

Cited by 191 publications

References 30 publications

Does medieval trade still matter? Historical trade centers, agglomeration and contemporary economic development

Does medieval trade still matter? Historical trade centers, agglomeration and contemporary economic development

Regional Growth and Regional Decline

Rethinking (New) Economic Geography Models: Taking Geography and History More Seriously

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