Making Sense of the Manufacturing Belt: Determinants of U.S. Industrial Location, 1880-1920

Alexander Klein and Nicholas Crafts
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Alexander Klein: University of Kent

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Abstract: This paper investigates the ability of the new economic geography to explain the persistence of the manufacturing belt in the United States around the turn of the 20th century using a model which subsumes both market-potential and factor-endowment arguments. The results show that market potential was central to the existence of the manufacturing belt, that it mattered more than factor endowments, and that its impact came through interactions both with scale economies and with linkage effects. Natural advantage played a role in industrial location but only through agricultural inputs which were important for a small subset of manufacturing.(First published March 2010, revised October 2010)

Keywords: factor endowments; linkage effects; manufacturing belt; market potential; new economic geography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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