Patterns and drivers of cultural economy in Spain’s extra-metropolitan small towns

Ana Isabel Escalona Orcao (), Luis Antonio Sáez Pérez () and Belén Sánchez-Valverde García ()
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Ana Isabel Escalona Orcao: University of Zaragoza
Luis Antonio Sáez Pérez: University of Zaragoza
Belén Sánchez-Valverde García: University of Zaragoza

INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, 2017, issue 38, 27-45

Abstract: Research on the location of cultural and creative firms has traditionally focused on large cities, but small towns are also likely to hold them. This work investigates which factors determine cultural specialisation in a group of 46 extrametropolitan Spanish towns with 30-50,000 inhabitants. We consider factors related to markets and government policies —hard factors— and new factors related to amenities, tolerance, and the local climate —soft factors—. When we check them statistically, the greatest explanatory power is attributed to some hard-type factors such as economic activity and human capital, as well as the distance to urban markets. In contrast, the expectations raised by the soft factors are not confirmed.

Keywords: cultural economy; cultural clusters; extra-metropolitan areas; small towns; Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L80 R12 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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