The Regional Industry-size Distribution - An Analysis of all Types of Industries in Germany

Thomas Brenner ()

Papers on Economics and Evolution from Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group

Abstract: This paper studies the frequency of observing a certain number of firms or employees in a region for a given industry. Various predictions for these frequencies are deduced from theoretical considerations. Then, the empirical distributions of 198 industries in Germany are analysed. It is found that different kinds of industries show quite different distributions.

Keywords: industry study; spatial distribution; local industrial clusters. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 L60 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2006-03
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