Missing Elements in the Analysis of Agglomeration Economies

Parr, John B.

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“…Activity-complex economies have been recently added to the typology (Parr 2002;Capello 2009a), meaning that the vertical integration of the production chain of co-located companies reduces transaction costs. In a similar manner, recent literature on industrial clusters argues that agglomerations differ according to the mode of company entry and local interaction (Gordon -McCann 2000).…”

Section: Regional Economic Growth: An Overviewmentioning

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Regional economic growth in Hungary 1998–2005: What does really matter in clusters?

Lengyel

Kanó

2014

Acta Oeconomica

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Although industry clusters are major targets of regional economic development in less developed regions as well, we still need a deeper understanding of how the spatial clustering of firms generates dynamics in lagging regions. These latter environments may differ from the typical cluster policy examples that are usually specialised global centres of dynamically growing industries. Using census-type data of Hungarian firms, we test the effect of major cluster indicators -regional specialisation and spatial concentration of industries -and the impact of FDI on regional productivity and employment growth in Hungary. Our results suggest that regional specialisation does not affect regional growth, while the spatial concentration of industries is found to influence productivity and employment growth with an overwhelmingly negative effect. Furthermore, regional employment growth is associated negatively with the initial level of regional specialisation. Results suggest that Hungary has evolved into a dual economy in which previously specialised regions and geographically concentrated industries have lost their pace, while the main factor that favoured regional economic growth was the presence of large foreign companies. Therefore, economic policies fostering regional specialisation and the spatial concentration of industries -such as cluster policy -may have minor effects unless the interaction of foreign-owned and domestic companies is encouraged.

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Section: Regional Economic Growth: An Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Regional economic growth in Hungary 1998–2005: What does really matter in clusters?

Lengyel

Kanó

2014

Acta Oeconomica

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“…This debate has focused on two types of agglomeration economies. The first are localisation economies "which derive from the common location of independent firms in the same industry" (Parr, 2002). The second is urbanization economies, which stress the importance of common location of unrelated independent businesses.…”

Section: Diversity and Innovation: Theoretical And Empirical Contextsmentioning

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Local Labour Market Diversity and Business Innovation: Evidence from Irish Manufacturing Businesses

McGuirk

Jordan

2012

European Planning Studies

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Access to the full text of the published version may require a subscription. Rights Local Labour Market Diversity and Business Innovation: Evidence from Irish Manufacturing Businesses AbstractThis paper estimates the effect of diversity within local labour markets on business-level innovation. Using survey data and Irish census data, the paper explores whether diversity of human capital at county-level is associated with higher innovation output. Diversity in age, nationality and educational attainment is measured using an index of heterogeneity and its effect on business innovation is estimated using an innovation production function approach. It is found that diversity in nationality and educational attainment is positively associated with the probability of a business product innovating. The findings also suggest that greater external labour market diversity and greater levels of internal third-level education may be substitutes. Where a business is in a diverse location it may not require higher levels of educational attainment among its workforce to source knowledge for product innovation.

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“…When congestion costs tend to exceed these advantages, firms move outward to suburban areas. The scaling up of polycentric structures is explained by increasing geographical scales of agglomeration economies (Parr, 2002a(Parr, , 2002b or of specific industries due to changes in technologies of production, transport and communication (Phelps & Ozawa, 2003).…”

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An Integrated Land Use and Transport Model to Examine Polycentric Policies of Beijing

Niu

Liu

Chen

2018

IRSPSD International

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Abstract:Beijing's fast urban growth has caused serious traffic congestion and great environmental damage. The government plans to develop sub-centres in its metropolitan area to ease the pressures associated with being a sole, centralized city service provider. This has been formalized in its recently published master plan, the 'Beijing City Master Plan (BCMP), 2004-2020' (BCMP), which targets the formation of the city plan up to 2020. This study develops a general land-use and transport interaction model to forecast the housing rent distribution based on the present land-use policies and examines whether the objective of decentralized multi-centres can be achieved based on a 'business as usual' scenario. Modelling results show that as of 2020 there will be no sub-centres formed around urban Beijing. Some zones demonstrate the potential to become sub-centres with higher rent increases than the surrounding zones. However, the distribution of these potential zones has a different spatial pattern from what the master plan anticipates. This work may well provide a modelling tool for China's decision makers to examine land-use policies before putting them into practice.

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Missing Elements in the Analysis of Agglomeration Economies

Cited by 151 publications

References 17 publications

Regional economic growth in Hungary 1998–2005: What does really matter in clusters?

Regional economic growth in Hungary 1998–2005: What does really matter in clusters?

Local Labour Market Diversity and Business Innovation: Evidence from Irish Manufacturing Businesses

An Integrated Land Use and Transport Model to Examine Polycentric Policies of Beijing

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