This chapter surveys recent developments in agglomeration theory within a unifying
framework. We highlight how locational fundamentals, agglomeration economies, the spatial …

Spatial economics aims to explain why there are peaks and troughs in the spatial
distribution of wealth and people, from the international and regional to the urban and local …

Improving energy efficiency is critical for realizing energy conservation and emissions
reductions. This study adopts a market integration perspective to undertake both theoretical …

This paper serves as an orientation towards the understanding of some of the contributions
and theoretical limitations in New Economic Geography and seeks to provide a prospective …

For two decades new economic geography has focused on 'macro-heterogeneity'across
locations showing how this can be endogenously generated by the microeconomic …

Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred
by new models, methods, and data. We survey a range of modeling traditions, and some …

Using data from a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms we provide novel empirical
evidence on the magnitude of local productivity advantages in two types of spatially …

Most of the existing literature on the construction of composite indicator (CI) in the Benefit of
the Doubt (BoD) framework fails to consider the exogenous external (tangible or intangible) …

Following the concept of refiguration of spaces proposed by KNOBLAUCH and LÖW (2017),
in this article I emphasize interfaces for theory building, methods, and comparative research …