Does spatial agglomeration increase national growth? some evidence from Europe
研究了欧洲各国生产率增长与空间集聚程度之间的关系，探讨了如何衡量空间集聚以及如何建模其与生产率增长的关系，对关注区域经济政策的经济学者有参考价值。
Economic geographers and regional economists have long been concerned with the problems provoked by uneven regional development and the ways by which policy intervention may be able to reduce such inequalities. However, in recent years the traditional argument for seeking to secure a reduction in the spatial concentration of economic activity in particular regions has been questioned and in some cases it has been suggested that policies that try to reduce regional economic inequalities may even reduce national efficiency. This article examines the evidence for a link between growth in productivity and the degree of spatial agglomeration across the nations of Europe. In doing so it considers how spatial agglomeration should be measured and how the relationship between agglomeration and the growth of productivity can be modelled.