The Identification of Agglomeration Economies

Gilles Duranton, Pierre-Philippe Combes and Laurent Gobillon

No 8119, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: Measures of urban productivity are typically positively associated with city population. But is this relationship causal? We discuss the main sources of bias in the proper identification of agglomeration effects. We also assess a variety of solutions that have been proposed in the literature to deal with them.

Keywords: Agglomeration economies; Instrumental variables; Natural experiments; Structural estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R12 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-11
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