Sources of productivity differentials in manufacturing in post-transition urban South-East Europe

Katarina Bacic (), Ivana Rasic Bakaric () and Suncana Slijepcevic ()
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Katarina Bacic: Knowledge Network Ltd.
Ivana Rasic Bakaric: The Institute of Economics, Zagreb

No 1706, Working Papers from The Institute of Economics, Zagreb

Abstract: The paper analyses the effects of urbanization and localisation economies on manufacturing firms’ productivity across urban landscapes in post-transition South-East European (SEE) countries. Fixed-effects panel data estimations on a large sample of firms show that the factors accounting for productivity advantages of manufacturing firms in urban post-transition SEE are related to the firms and to the environment in which these firms operate. Firms located in diversified cities benefit from a productivity premium generated in this type of agglomeration, while no evidence was found that the relative specialization across industries has any effect on firm productivity levels.

Keywords: city; manufacturing; total factor productivity; post-transition South-East Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 R00 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2017-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eff, nep-eur, nep-geo, nep-sbm, nep-tid, nep-tra and nep-ure
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