The Identification of Agglomeration Economies

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton and Laurent Gobillon

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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; Structural estimation; Natural experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-03
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Published in Journal of Economic Geography, 2011, 11 (2), pp.253-266. ⟨10.1093/jeg/lbq038⟩

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DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbq038

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