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The world is not yet flat: Transport costs matter!
Behrens, Kristian; Bougna, Théophile; Brown, W. Mark - 2017
Using micro-level commodity flow data and micro-geographic plant-level data, we construct industry-specific ad valorem 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012542454
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Transport costs, trade, and geographic concentration: Evidence from Canada
Behrens, Kristian; Brown, W. Mark - 2017
Our objective is threefold. First, we explain how to estimate transport costs and the geographic concentration of industries using trucking microdata and geocoded plant-level data. Second, we document that transport costs explain between 25% to 57% of the observed relationship between trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012542457
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Why geographic dispersion before its time: Industrial policy and economic geography in the People's Republic of China
Wu, Yiyun; Zhu, Xiwei - 2017
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 … specialization. The result is robust when using instrumental variables to deal with possible reverse causality and omitted variable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688656
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Why geographic dispersion before its time : industrial policy and economic geography in the People's Republic of China
Wu, Yiyun; Zhu, Xiwei - 2017
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 … specialization. The result is robust when using instrumental variables to deal with possible reverse causality and omitted variable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585948
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Economic integration and manufacturing concentration patterns: Evidence from Mercosur
Traistaru, Iulia; Volpe Martincus, Christian - 2003
Trade policy changes are likely to result in a reallocation of resources across sectors and space. Over the past two decades, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay have implemented unilateral trade liberalization programs and formed a regional bloc, Mercosur. The effects of these reforms on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301137
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Economic integration and manufacturing concentration patterns: Evidence from Mercosur
Traistaru, Iulia; Volpe Martincus, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), … - 2003
Trade policy changes are likely to result in a reallocation of resources across sectors and space. Over the past two decades, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay have implemented unilateral trade liberalization programs and formed a regional bloc, Mercosur. The effects of these reforms on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008614711
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Urban specialisation : from sectoral to functional
Antoine, Antoine; Markusen, James R.; Venables, Anthony - 2021
to cities developing a pattern of sectoral specialization, and the latter a pattern of functional specialization. This … predictions of the model are consistent with changes in the pattern of specialization in the US over recent decades. The model … insights, including that, as costs of remote sourcing fall, cities’ functional specialization tends to increase and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417745
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Economic Integration and Regional Industrial Specialization : Evidence from the Canadian-U.S. FTA Experience
Beine, Michel A. R.; Coulombe, Serge - 2004
specialization of the Canadian regions. Trade integration is captured through the decrease of trade-weighted tariffs that was boosted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069860
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A stochastic theory of geographic concentration and the empirical evidence in Germany
Brenner, Thomas - 2005
A stochastic model of the evolution of the firm population in a region and industry is developed. This model is used to make predictions about the expected probability distribution of the firm number in regions and their dynamics. Data on the spatial distribution of firms in Germany is used to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266753
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Has concentration evolved similarly in manufacturing and services? A sensitivity analysis.
Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer; Moreno-Serrano, Rosina; … - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2007
Our first objective is to compare the degree of concentration in manufacturing and services, with special emphasis on its evolution in these two sectors, using a sensitivity analysis for different concentration indices and different geographic units of analysis: municipalities and local labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971433