Paper #499
- Title:
- Agglomeration-effects in Europe
- Author:
- Antonio Ciccone
- Date:
- April 1998 (Revised: August 1999)
- Abstract:
- The paper estimates agglomeration-effects for France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. Estimation takes into account endogeneity of the spatial distribution of employment and spatial fixed-effects. Empirical results suggest that agglomeration-effects in these European countries are only slightly smaller than agglomeration- effects in the US: the estimated elasticity of average- labor-productivity with respect to employment-density is 4.5 percent compared to 5 percent in the US.
- Keywords:
- Agglomeration, productivity
- JEL codes:
- R10
- Area of Research:
- Macroeconomics and International Economics
- Published in:
- European Economic Review, 46 (2), 213-227, 2002
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