Roe, Brian; Irwin, Elena G.; Sharp, Jeff S. - In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics 84 (2002) 2, pp. 259-278
We posit a spatially explicit, county-level model of the hog production sector and estimate how numerous firm-specific, locality-specific, and spatial agglomeration factors affect the location, movement, and intensity of hog production within 15 key hog production states. Spatial agglomeration,...