The aim of this article is to show the main determinants of industrial location processes. To better illustrate phenomena such as agglomeration economies, which are normally studied at the regional level, we use local data. We use the Poisson model to identify the location patterns of firms. Our...

During the 1990s an intense programme of high capacity road construction was carried out in the Spanish road network. This considerably improved accessibility to municipalities. The aim of this paper is to determine whether this greater accessibility has had positive effects on the creation of...

This paper assesses empirically the importance of size discrimination and disaggregate data for deciding where to locate a start-up concern. We compare three econometric specifications using Catalan data: a multinomial logit with 4 and 41 alternatives (provinces and comarques, respectively) in...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the influence of agglomeration economies on location decisions taken by new firms inside metropolitan areas. Following the literature, we consider that agglomeration economies are related to the concentration of an industry (location economies) and/or to...

Este artículo presenta una revisión de los estudios empíricos sobre localización industrial y una aplicación ilustrativa de los resultados que proporcionan. Las especificaciones más habituales en la literatura son modelos de elección discreta (en los que el énfasis recae sobre el agente...

Most of economic literature about industrial location patterns donít consider entrant firm size as an explanatory variable of this phenomenon. Nevertheless, empirical research have shown that bigger firms are heavily influenced by economic variables of the cities where they are going to be...

In this paper we analyze the regional and sector-specific determinants of industry dynamics. Concretely, we empirically tested three hypotheses (originally proposed by Shapiro and Khemani 1987) for the relationship between the entry and exit of firms in Spanish regions and sectors. The simplest...