Path Dependence in Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: Bad News for Empiric Research of Agglomeration Effects

Evgeniy Kutsenko ()

Journal of the New Economic Association, 2012, vol. 14, issue 2, 10-26

Abstract: It is considered that concentrations of economic activity in the market economy are formed according to the balance of agglomeration effects. Actually this scientific idealization is far from a reality. Agglomeration effects change much faster, than spatial distribution of economic activity. This phenomenon can be well described by the path dependency theory. Despite such problems it is supposed in empirical papers that concentration of the enterprises or employment is a good proxy variable for agglomeration effects.

Keywords: spatial distribution of economic activity; agglomeration effects; path dependency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B0 O12 O30 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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