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Agglomeration, urbanization and competitive performance: the natural experiment of English football

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  • Calvin Jones
  • Declan Jordan

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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.

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  • Calvin Jones & Declan Jordan, 2019. "Agglomeration, urbanization and competitive performance: the natural experiment of English football," Regional Studies, Regional Science, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 6(1), pages 421-438, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:421-438
    DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1647794
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    1. Brad R. Humphreys & Amir B. Ferreira Neto, 2020. "Localization Economies and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Football Teams in Sao Paulo, Brazil," Working Papers 20-09, Department of Economics, West Virginia University.

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