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Sources of productivity differentials in manufacturing in post-transition urban South-East Europe post-communist economies

The paper analyses the effects of urbanization and localisation economies on manufacturing firms' productivity across urban landscape in post- transition South-East European (SEE) countries. Fixed-effects panel data estimations on a large sample of firms shows that the factors accounting for productivity advantages of manufacturing firms in urban post-transition SEE are related to the firm and to the environment in which these firms operate. Firms located in diversified cities benefit from a productivity premium generated in this type of agglomeration, while no evidence was found that

city ; specialization ; diversification ; manufacturing ; total factor productivity ; posttransition South-East Europe

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