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- 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015
positive feedback loop through which value is created for both parties. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47436 The Logic of Agglomeration By: Duranton, Gilles, and William R. Kerr Abstract—This review...
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- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing important roles. Looking at the district-industry level, we find extensive evidence of agglomeration economies among manufacturing industries. In...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
R. Kerr Publication:The American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Why do firms cluster near one another? We test Marshall's (1920) theories of industrial agglomeration by examining which industries locate near one another, or...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
that agglomeration of human capital—having a high concentration of highly educated residents—is really important,” says Kominers. Even so, “we were surprised to find it was so much more important than other factors, such as income.” In...
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- 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7
concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United States. We discuss rationales for the agglomeration of these activities and the economic consequences of clusters. We identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
811-106 Location choice is a critical decision for entrepreneurs. This note explores how entrepreneurs should think about different city options through a systematic framework that encompasses professional and personal issues. We use the intellectual frameworks of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find evidence of agglomeration economies in both sectors, where higher female ownership among incumbent businesses within a district-industry predicts that a greater share of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
cross-state spillovers or business-stealing from one state to another are important, but do not account for all of the effect. Agglomeration effects from local innovation clusters tend to weaken responsiveness to taxation. Corporate...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
and will take years. The authors describe the path that blockchain is likely to follow and explain how firms should think about investments in it. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52100 forthcoming Annual Review of Economics High-Skilled...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
in the strength of agglomeration economies in Silicon Valley, but historically its origins lay in the East Coast. Notably, immediate post-WWII efforts to establish the American Research and Development Corporation created a precedent for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
and Agglomeration By: Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons Abstract—This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find evidence of agglomeration economies in both sectors,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
Matthew Marx in Connecticut (they're not). Thus we were able to observe inventors' mobility over time, at least to the extent that they filed patents. We were initially interested in whether the differences in enforcement between states might help explain the View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
these curious combinations may have seemed financially attractive at their inception, they were now so functionally ill-conceived that the individual parts were worth more than the agglomerated whole. The M&A; restructuring of those 1960s...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007
inventors, including knowledge spillovers and agglomeration and the concentration of spinoffs. This work investigates a possible antecedent of inventor mobility: regional variation in the enforcement of postemployment non-compete...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50923 May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Invention and Agglomeration in the Bay Area: Not Just ICT By: Forman, Chris, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein Abstract—We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
industries. We exploit data from the U.S. Cluster Mapping Project to examine the effects of agglomeration within regional clusters after controlling for convergence at the region-industry level. Our findings suggest that industries...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters that are much larger than the underlying agglomerative forces themselves. Empirically, we demonstrate that our model's assumptions are present in the structure of technology and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
speed. We apply our model to shopping mall configuration and sales. We find that competition effects dominate within retail store categories, but that agglomeration effects exist across store categories. We find positive causal brand...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters that are much larger than the underlying...
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Carmen Nobel