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Agglomeration Economies and the Built Environment: Evidence from Specialized Buildings and Anchor Tenants

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  • Liu, Crocker H.
  • Rosenthal, Stuart S.
  • Strange, William C.

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Previous work on agglomeration economies ignores the built environment. This paper shows that the built environment matters, especially for commercial sectors that dominate city centers. Buildings are specialized beyond random assignment, in part because externality-generating anchor tenants skew a building's other tenants towards the anchor's industry. An anchor elsewhere on the blockface has a much weaker effect, and one that is weaker still if across the street, suggesting rapidly attenuating agglomeration economies. Attenuation is pronounced for retail and information-oriented office industries but is absent for manufacturing. Building managers have incentives and capacities to partly internalize local externalities, contributing to urban productivity.

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  • Liu, Crocker H. & Rosenthal, Stuart S. & Strange, William C., 2024. "Agglomeration Economies and the Built Environment: Evidence from Specialized Buildings and Anchor Tenants," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 142(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:juecon:v:142:y:2024:i:c:s0094119024000251
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2024.103655
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    1. Ying Chen & Paul Cheshire & Xiangqing Wang & You-Sin Wang, 2024. "Valuing consumption services as technology transforms accessibility: Evidence from Beijing," CEP Discussion Papers dp2031, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.

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    Keywords

    Agglomeration; Commercial real estate; Anchor tenants; Built environment;
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    JEL classification:

    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • R30 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location - - - General

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