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  • 22 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

forthcoming Handbook of Structural Transformation Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational Firms By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen Abstract—Multinationals exhibit distinct View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Nov 2004
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Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

"agglomeration." Agglomeration also happened here in Boston (the illustration shows the beginning of Boston's agglomeration in the mid-1990s), but it lagged, mainly because DEC (Digital Equipment... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Feb 2007
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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
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47436 The Logic of Agglomeration By: Duranton, Gilles, and William R. Kerr Abstract—This review... View Details
  • 16 Aug 2017
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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... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate
  • 17 Jan 2017
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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://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52100 forthcoming Annual Review of Economics High-Skilled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

name servers host typosquatting domains as much as four times as often as the web as a whole. Download the paper: http://www.benedelman.org/typosquatting/typosquatting.pdf   Working PapersLocation Strategies for Agglomeration Economies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Mar 2013
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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,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

effect of efficiency wages on employee behavior and social norms.   Working PapersSpatial Organization of Firms: Internal and External Agglomeration Economies and Location Choices Through the Value Chain Authors:Juan Alcácer and Mercedes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

actions with social or future benefits. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53178 A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies By: Giacomin, Valeria Abstract—Clusters are defined as geographically concentrated View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Jun 2014
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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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-006.pdf The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors Author:William R. Kerr Abstract The ethnic composition of U.S. inventors is undergoing a significant transformation-with deep impacts for the overall... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

and the established literatures on resource allocation and incumbent spin-outs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51520 Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

still the world's currency of choice. The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors Author:William R. Kerr Publication:In Economics of Agglomeration, edited by Edward Glaeser. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming. (Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

of physical infrastructure and workforce education are the 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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2011
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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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

that internal agglomerations have a positive impact on location. The effects of internal agglomerations vary by activity, and they arise both within an activity (e.g., among plants) and across activities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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