Agglomeration, Diversity and Regional Growth

Pontus Brodde Braunerhjelm () and Benny Borgman
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Benny Borgman: CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies, Royal Institute of Technology, Postal: CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden, http://www.infra.kth.se/cesis/cesis/index2.htm

No 71, Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation from Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to empirically examine the importance of the structure of agglomeration on productivity and growth. To accomplish this we will include the degree of co-agglomeration of similar industries as an explanatory variable in the empirical analysis, while simultaneously controlling for the degree of industry-specific agglomeration. To the best of our knowledge, the impact of co-agglomerated industries on productivity has not previously been investigated. The empirical analysis confirms a positive statistical relationship between interdependent and co-located industries on labour productivity.

Keywords: Co-agglomeration; productivity; growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2006-08-03
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