Regional industrial structure and agglomeration economies: An analysis of productivity in three manufacturing industries
By J. Drucker, Edward J. Feser. 2012
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We investigate whether a more concentrated regional industrial structure – the dominance of a few large firms in a given industry in a region – limits agglomeration economies and ultimately diminishes the economic performance of firms in that industry, especially small ones. In an application to three industries using establishment-level production functions and a combination of confidential and publicly available data sources, we find a consistently negative and substantial direct productivity effect associated with regional industrial structure concentration and only mixed and relatively weak evidence that agglomeration economies are a mediating factor in that effect.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
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- What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns (2010, unknown): “Together these three variables explain more of the variation in coagglomeration than does natural advantage, which supports the view that agglomeration economies is a more important determinant of geographic location ( as in Ellison and Glaeser 1999 .”
- Economic growth and pollutant emissions in China: a spatial econometric analysis (2014, background): “…of economic activities occurs at all geographical levels (country, region, or city), which is influenced by scale effect, market externality, knowledge and technology spillover effect (Anselin 2007; Brülhart and Sbergami 2009; Drucker and Feser 2012; Krugman 1998; Patacchini 2008; Ying 2005).”