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Book Synopsis The Determinants of Geographic Concentration in Industry by : Michael J. Enright
Download or read book The Determinants of Geographic Concentration in Industry written by Michael J. Enright and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Geographic Concentration of Industry by : Glenn Ellison
Download or read book The Geographic Concentration of Industry written by Glenn Ellison and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Geographic Concentration as a Dynamic Process by : Guy Dumais
Download or read book Geographic Concentration as a Dynamic Process written by Guy Dumais and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The degree of geographic concentration of individual manufacturing industries in the U.S. has declined only slightly in the last twenty years. At the same time, new plant births, plant expansions, contractions and closures have shifted large quantities of employment across plants, firms, and locations. This paper uses data from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Research Database to examine how relatively stable levels of geographic concentration emerge from this dynamic process. While industries' agglomeration levels tend to remain fairly constant, we find that there is greater variation in the locations of these agglomerations. We then decompose aggregate concentration changes into portions attributable to plant births, expansions, contractions, and closures, and find that the location choices of new firms and differences in growth rates have played the most significant role in reducing levels of geographic concentration, while plant closures have tended to reinforce agglomeration. Finally, we look at coagglomeration patterns to test three of Marshall's theories of industry agglomeration: (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. While there is some truth behind all three theories, we find that industrial location is far more driven by labor mix than by any of the other explanatory variables.
Book Synopsis Determinants of Geographic Concentration in Taiwan Manufacturing Industries by : 方瀞儀
Download or read book Determinants of Geographic Concentration in Taiwan Manufacturing Industries written by 方瀞儀 and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Agglomeration Economics by : Edward L. Glaeser
Download or read book Agglomeration Economics written by Edward L. Glaeser and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When firms and people are located near each other in cities and in industrial clusters, they benefit in various ways, including by reducing the costs of exchanging goods and ideas. One might assume that these benefits would become less important as transportation and communication costs fall. Paradoxically, however, cities have become increasingly important, and even within cities industrial clusters remain vital. Agglomeration Economics brings together a group of essays that examine the reasons why economic activity continues to cluster together despite the falling costs of moving goods and transmitting information. The studies cover a wide range of topics and approach the economics of agglomeration from different angles. Together they advance our understanding of agglomeration and its implications for a globalized world.
Book Synopsis Diversity Matters by : Somik V. Lall
Download or read book Diversity Matters written by Somik V. Lall and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does economic geography influence industrial production and thereby affect industrial location decisions and the spatial distribution of development? For manufacturing industry, what are the externalities that matter, and to what extent? Are these externalities spatially localized? The authors answer these questions by analyzing the influence of economic geography on the cost structure of manufacturing firms by firm size for eight industry sectors in India. The economic geography factors include market access and local and urban externalities-which are concentrations of own-industry firms, concentrations of buyer-supplier links, and industrial diversity at the district (local) level. The authors find that industrial diversity is the only economic geography variable that has a significant, consistent, and substantial cost-reducing effect for firms, particularly small firms. This finding calls into question the fundamental assumptions regarding localization economies and raises further concerns on the industrial development prospects of lagging regions in developing countries.
Book Synopsis Scale Economies and the Geographic Concentration of Industry by : Gordon Howard Hanson
Download or read book Scale Economies and the Geographic Concentration of Industry written by Gordon Howard Hanson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent empirical literature on spatial agglomeration, many papers find evidence consistent with location-specific externalities of some sort. Our willingness to accept evidence of agglomeration economies depends on how well key estimation problems have been addressed. Three issues are particularly troublesome for identifying agglomeration effects: unobserved regional characteristics, simultaneity in regional data, and multiple sources of externalities. Two empirical results appear to be robust to problems created by the first two issues: (a) individual wages are increasing in the presence of more-educated workers in the local labor force, which is consistent with localized human-capital externalities, and (b) long-run industry growth is higher in locations with a wider range of industrial activities, which suggests that firms benefit from being in more diverse urban environments. Other evidence is supportive of agglomeration effects related to regional demand linkages and short-run, industry-specific externalities
Book Synopsis Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing Industries by : Glenn Ellison
Download or read book Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing Industries written by Glenn Ellison and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper discusses the prevalence of Silicon Valley-style localizations of individual manufacturing industries in the United States. Several models in which firms choose locations by throwing darts at a map are used to test whether the degree of localization is greater than would be expected to arise randomly and to motivate a new index of geographic concentration. The proposed index controls for differences in the size distribution of plants and for differences in the size of the geographic areas for which data is available. As a consequence, comparisons of the degree of geographic concentration across industries can be made with more confidence. We reaffirm previous observations in finding that almost all industries are localized, although the degree of localization appears to be slight in about half of the industries in our sample. We explore the nature of agglomerative forces in describing patterns of concentration, the geographic scope of localization, and the extent to which agglomerations involve plants in similar as opposed to identical industries.
Book Synopsis Industrial Activity and Economic Geography by : Robert C. Estall
Download or read book Industrial Activity and Economic Geography written by Robert C. Estall and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Coordination and Information by : Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Download or read book Coordination and Information written by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies that examine how firms coordinate economic activity in the face of asymmetric information—information not equally available to all parties—are the focus of this volume. In an ideal world, the market would be the optimal provider of coordination, but in the real world of incomplete information, some activities are better coordinated in other ways. Divided into three parts, this book addresses coordination within firms, at the borders of firms, and outside firms, providing a picture of the overall incidence and logic of economic coordination. The case studies—drawn from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when the modern business enterprise was evolving, address such issues as the relationship between coordination mechanisms and production techniques, the logic of coordination in industrial districts, and the consequences of regulation for coordination. Continuing the work on information and organization presented in the influential Inside the Business Enterprise, this book provides material for business historians and economists who want to study the development of the dissemination of information and the coordination of economic activity within and between firms.
Book Synopsis Multinational Firms' Location and the New Economic Geography by : Jean Louis Mucchielli
Download or read book Multinational Firms' Location and the New Economic Geography written by Jean Louis Mucchielli and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The choice of location for the production plants of multinational firms is an important issue, not least because this decision is accompanied by so many fears brought into public debate. This book analyses how foreign direct investors choose their locations, whilst exploring the forces which shape international economic geography. Although these two issues are, to some extent, inter-related, researchers have only recently acknowledged the similarity of economic geography and international business approaches to the empirical assessment of likely causes of the degree of spatial concentration observed in many modern industries. Giving insight into the direction that future research should take, this book contains state-of-the-art papers on both theoretical and empirical levels. This original collection makes a particularly important contribution to our understanding of the existence and impact of home market effects. Introducing a welcome synthesis between two related and yet rarely integrated areas of study using case studies of firms in Europe, US MNEs and the Mexican automobile industry, this book will be welcomed by both academic and practising economists. Regional scientists and.
Book Synopsis Industrial Location by : David Marshall Smith
Download or read book Industrial Location written by David Marshall Smith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1981 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Geographic Concentration of Retail Stores by : Yizhen Gu
Download or read book The Geographic Concentration of Retail Stores written by Yizhen Gu and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation mainly assesses the relative importance of two mechanisms-consumer searching and cost sharing for the spatial concentration of retail stores. I first present a simple model of firms' location choice and consumers' shopping destination choice. This model shows how both mechanisms promote the agglomeration of retail firms. The degree of retail agglomeration, measured by Ripley's K function, increases with the importance of consumer searching and with the benefits from scale economy in intermediate inputs such as advertisements and delivery services. I then present stylized facts based on industry agglomeration. Using the 2012 National Establishment Time-Series database, I calculate Ripley's K function and Ellison-Glaeser index that measure the degree of agglomeration for each CBSA-NAICS industry-year pair in the U.S. from 1992 to 2012. The estimated Ripley's K values show that the overall degree of retail agglomeration has been decreasing since 1992. Also, I find much inconsistency between the estimated Ripley's K and Eillson-Glaeser indices. Using the variation in the percentage of population that use Internet across regions and in the Internet sales share across retailing industries, I find that a 10 percentage points increases in the Internet use percentage and in the Internet sales share is associated with a 3.1-3.5 decrease and a 9.5-10.8 decrease in the calculated Ripley's K value. This provides suggestive evidence of the role consumer searching plays in promoting retail agglomeration since Internet decreases the importance of consumer searching in person. A difference-in-differences analysis shows that industries easy to make comparison shopping online experience a greater decrease in the degree of agglomeration by 6.8-12.6 before and after 2000. Last, I use a triple-difference approach based on the bankruptcy of chain stores like Borders and Circuit City to distinguish the effects of consumer searching and cost sharing. The estimation results for various types of chain stores using sales, employment size, the probability of closure, and the birth of new stores as dependent variables are mixed. Consumer searching alone cannot well explain retail agglomeration; however, there is little evidence of the contribution of the cost sharing mechanism to retail agglomeration.
Book Synopsis Industrial Activity and Economic Geography by : R. C. Estall
Download or read book Industrial Activity and Economic Geography written by R. C. Estall and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Why Geographic Dispersion Before Its Time by : Yiyun Wu
Download or read book Why Geographic Dispersion Before Its Time written by Yiyun Wu and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates the trends and determinants of geographic concentration and industrial specialization in the People's Republic of China (PRC) using interprovincial panel data for the period from 1999 to 2010. It shows that, after 2005, both geographic concentration and industrial specialization began to decrease, resulting in an increased similarity of provincial industrial structure. Industrial policies of provincial governments cause geographic dispersion and inverse specialization. The result is robust when using instrumental variables to deal with possible reverse causality and omitted variable problems. The mechanism behind this is that central government industrial policy, which tends to last for several years, is an important reference document for each provincial planner. This causes the less-developed regions to deviate from their comparative advantages, resulting in a combination of insufficient geographic concentration and inverse specialization in the PRC.
Book Synopsis Silicon Mountains, Silicon Molehills by : Jed Kolko
Download or read book Silicon Mountains, Silicon Molehills written by Jed Kolko and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing Industries by : Glenn Ellison
Download or read book Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing Industries written by Glenn Ellison and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: