Location Proximity and Productivity Spillovers: The Case of Korean Manufacturing Plants
Backhoon Song ()
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Backhoon Song: Sungshin Women's University Republic of Korea
Asian Economic Papers, 2015, vol. 14, issue 1, 104-118
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Knowledge spillovers have been recognized as an important source of innovation and economic growth in both industry and firm-level data. A firm may reap benefits by locating near other firms in the same geographical region. In this paper, we examine how physical proximity influences a firm's future productivity and its survival possibility. Our results indicate that a firm located in a region with a higher median total factor productivity (TFP) gains higher productivity from other firms in the same region. One possible explanation is that such a firm has more opportunity to access superior external knowledge and to produce more new ideas. Our results also indicate these productivity-enhancing characteristics do not seem to be industry-specific. Finally, we find that high productivity firms are the only significant sources of knowledge spillovers, suggesting that firms benefit most from combining their internal knowledge with the external knowledge of neighboring firms with high TFP on average. © 2015 The Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords: knowledge; spillovers; innovation; economic growth; physical proximity; future; productivity; TFP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L00 L10 L19 L20 L25 M00 O20 O30 O35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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