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Testing for localization using micro-geographic data

Duranton, Gilles; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

To study the detailed location patterns of industries, and particularly the tendency for industries to cluster relative to overall manufacturing, we develop distance-based tests of localisation. In contrast to previous studies, our approach allows us to assess the statistical significance of...

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Exploring the detailed location patterns of UK manufacturing industries using microgeographic data

Duranton, Gilles; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We use a point-pattern methodology to explore the detailed location patterns of UK manufacturing industries. In particular, we consider the location of entrants and exiters vs. continuing establishments, domestic- vs. foreign-owned, large vs. small, and affiliated vs. independent. We also...

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Testing for Localisation Using Micro-Geographic Data

Duranton, Gilles; Overman, Henry G - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003

To study the detailed location patterns of industries, and particularly the tendency for industries to cluster relative to overallmanufacturing, we develop distance-based tests of localisation. In contrast to previous studies, our approach allows us to assess the statistical significance of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005393519

Agglomeration within and between regions: Two econometric based indicators

Giacinto, Valter Di; Pagnini, Marcello - Banca d'Italia - 2008

We propose two indexes to measure the agglomeration forces acting within and between different regions. Unlike the existing measures of agglomeration, our model-based indexes allow for simultaneous treatment of both aspects. Local plant diffusion in a given industry is modelled as a spatial...

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Connective Financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries

Bluhm, Richard; Drehery, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2020

This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...

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The trend of regional income disparity in the People's Republic of China

Li, Shantong (contributor); Xu, Zhaoyuan (contributor) - 2008

Based on recent updated statistical data that has become available since the People’s Republic of China (PRC …

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A spatial interpretation of the persistency of China's provincial inequality

Yu, Xiaofan - 2011

China's rapid economic growth in recent decades has not led to balanced income distribution: inter- and intra … development, this paper investigates the nexus between the spatial dependence and income inequality in China on a prefectural … also the choropleth maps of clusters in China, this paper reaches the conclusion that clusters of prefectures and provinces …

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