In this paper, geographical spillover potential is modeled and empirically examined using factory-level data from Japans Census of Manufactures. First, the efficiency of each factory is estimated using a non-parametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) model for each industry. Second, the...

In this paper, I explain Thünens pioneering work on industrial agglomeration. In my opinion, Thünens thinking on industrial agglomeration was not only amazingly advanced for his time, but in many respects remains novel even today. It is shown that if we unify Thünens well-known theory on...

The standard approach to studying industrial agglomeration is to construct summary measures of the degree of agglomerationʺ within each industry and to test for significant agglomeration with respect to some appropriate reference measures. But such summary measures often fail to distinguish...