Agglomeration economies and clustering -- evidence from German and European firms

Kurt Hafner

Applied Economics, 2013, vol. 45, issue 20, 2938-2953

Abstract: This article empirically analyses the impact of agglomeration economies on the clustering of German and European firms using partial proportional-odds models. Firms are grouped according to industry and divided into departments. At the industry level, I find evidence for inter-industry economies derived from the New Economic Geography (NEG) framework for European firms in general and German knowledge-intensive firms in particular. At the department level, Marshallian Externalities such as the hiring of skilled labour and technological spillover, and therefore intra-industry economies , are empirically confirmed for European and German departments like Human Resources and R&D but rarely for others.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2012.690850

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