Cities and clusters: economy-wide and sector-specific effects in corporate location

Are the observed spatial distributions of firms decided mostly by market-mediated, economy-wide locational forces, or rather by non-pecuniary, sector-specific ones? This work finds that the latter kind of forces weight systematically more than the former in deciding firm location. The analysis uses Italian data on a variety of manufacturing and service sectors spatially disaggregated at the level of Local Labor Systems.

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Year of publication:	2010-09-16
Authors:	Bottazzi, Giulio ; Gragnolati, Ugo
Institutions:	Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Subject:	Industrial Location \| Sector-specific Agglomeration \| Urbanization Economy \| Maximum Likelihood Estimation

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	LEM Papers Series.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	L1 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance ; C31 - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models ; R3 - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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