clusters

The brief looks at the potential growth of certain industries in the Tenth District of the U.S. Federal Reserve. It identifies emerging industries that might be growth sectors for the district and its rural areas, including telecommunications, office administration, software design and medical diagnostics.

This report uses clusters analysis based on employment numbers to examine the economy of Texas. The states economy flourished in the 1990s, took a hard hit in the 2001 recession and bounced back beginning in mid-2003. The states four major metros and its border cities also went through the expansion and contraction, albeit at different paces.

This report investigates if the background of an entrepreneurial researcher makes an impact on the activities of the firm. The authors find that biomedical academic entrepreneurs with human capital oriented toward exploring scientific opportunities significantly improve their firms performance of research tasks such as proof of concept studies. Biomedical academic entrepreneurs with human capital oriented toward exploring commercial opportunities significantly improve their firms performance of invention oriented tasks such as patenting.

In industrializing regions, foreign investments often generate spillovers through regional backward links. This situation may create a gap between private and social valuations of resources, resulting in a level of local content below what would be optimal for the economy. This situation creates an opportunity for the enactment of domestic content regulations. This paper presents a model to understand how these policies condition the decisions of the economic agents and affect economic welfare. Then, it simulates the model using a case study of the automotive sector.

This introduction to the Journal of Economic Geographys special issue on agglomeration and growth describes recent developments in the interaction between economists and geographers and provides some contextual background to the discussion.

This paper uses exploratory and spatial econometric data analysis techniques to investigate role of space, technological leadership, human capital, increasing returns to scale and industrial clustering as well as hierarchical organization principles for U.S. counties using data from 1969 through 2003.

While it is extremely difficult to rule out other types of agglomeration economies such as spillovers, this paper suggests that these geographic developments associated with industrial revolution in the U.S. are most consistent with explanations based on division of labor, job search and matching costs.

This paper studies the transmission of monetary policy to industrial output in the UK. Results show evidence of cross-sectional differences across industries and asymmetries in some sectors.