What causes industry agglomeration?
Subtitle: evidence from coagglomeratin patterns
By: Glenn Ellison, Edward L. Glaeser, William Kerr
Contributors: Glaeser, Edward L. (Edward Ludwig), 1967-; Kerr, William R. (William Robert); Harvard Business School. Division of Research
Series: Working paper / Division of Research, Harvard Business School -- 07-064; Working paper (Harvard Business School. Division of Research) -- 07-064
Publisher: Division of Research, Harvard Business School
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Description: Many industries are geographically concentrated. Many mechanisms that could account for such agglomeration have been proposed. We note that these theories make different predictions about which pairs of industries should be coagglomerated. We discuss the measurement of coagglomeration and use data from the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Research Database from 1972 to 1997 to compute pairwise coagglomeration measurements for U.S. manufacturing industries. Industry attributes are used to construct measures of the relevance of each of Marshall’s three theories of industry agglomeration to each industry pair: (1) agglomeration saves transport costs by proximity to input suppliers or final consumers, (2) agglomeration allows for labor market pooling, and (3) agglomeration facilitates intellectual spillovers.
Notes: "April 3, 2007"--Added t.p.

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