Agglomeration, urbanization and competitive performance

The natural experiment of English football

Bibliographic Data

ID7366696
AuthorsCalvin Jones (0000-0003-4980-2330, corresponding author), Declan Jordan (0000-0002-2446-0111)
Year2019
Volume6
Issue1
Pages421-438
Publication date2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRegional Studies Regional Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2168-1376 • E-ISSN: 2168-1376
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21681376.2019.1647794
OpenAlexW2968053939
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited35

There are sound theoretical and empirical bases for expecting productivity and innovative benefits for businesses located in large urban areas, and for those located closer to others in the same or related industries. However, the size and precise origin of these effects remain uncertain and complicated by potential endogeneity from businesses’ location choice. English football is proposed as a natural experiment with immobile businesses and evidence is presented from the English Premier League (EPL) that suggests urban scale affects clubs’ relative performance. It is found that teams in larger conurbations perform relatively better, and it is suggested these benefits probably originate from the sport’s novel labour market

Business · Cartography · Econometrics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economies of agglomeration · Empirical evidence · Endogeneity · Football · Geography · League · Microeconomics · Natural (archaeology · Natural experiment · Productivity · Scale (ratio · Urban agglomeration · Urbanization · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis

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