This paper investigates the trends and determinants of geographic concentration and industrial specialization in the …, both geographic concentration and industrial specialization began to decrease, resulting in an increased similarity of … comparative advantages, resulting in a combination of insufficient geographic concentration and inverse specialization in the PRC. …

trucking rate series and measures of geographic concentration to provide evidence on the relationship between transport costs … and agglomeration. We find that low transport cost industries display significantly more geographic concentration in the … large: the fall in trucking rates between 1992 and 2008 implied a 20% increase in geographic concentration on average, all …

Our objective is threefold. First, we explain how to estimate transport costs and the geographic concentration of … changes in transport costs have a substantial impact on geographic concentration patterns for vertically linked industries … decrease in geographic concentration for industry pairs at the bottom decile of the input-output coefficient distribution …

This paper investigates the trends and determinants of geographic concentration and industrial specialization in the …, both geographic concentration and industrial specialization began to decrease, resulting in an increased similarity of … comparative advantages, resulting in a combination of insufficient geographic concentration and inverse specialization in the PRC. …