|Question 4Verbal

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Agglomeration economies arise when multiple firms in related industries        an area, as with leather production firms and footwear manufacturers in Glasgow, UK. Economists have assumed that companies cluster for the same reasons, but Giulia Faggio et al. found that factors driving agglomeration in some cases are only weakly correlated with agglomeration in others.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
appeal to
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amass in
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concur with
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intercede in
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