Evolving agglomeration in the U.S. auto supplier industry
By: Thomas H. Klier, Daniel McMillen
Contributors: McMillen, Daniel P.; Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Research Department
Series: Working paper series -- WP-2006-20; Working paper series (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Research Department : Online) -- WP-2006-20.
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Subjects: Automobile supplies industry; Statistics; Industrial location; Econometric models
Description: "Using nonparametric descriptive tools developed by Duranton and Overman (2005), we show that both new and old auto supplier plants are highly concentrated in the eastern United States.  Conditional logit models imply that much of this concentration can be explained parametrically by distance from Detroit, proximity to assembly plants, and access to the interstate highway system.  New plants are more likely to be located in zip codes that are close to existing supplier plants.  However, the degree of clustering observed is still greater than implied by the logit estimates"--Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago web site.
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