Cities and clusters: economy-wide and sector-specific effects in corporate location

Giulio Bottazzi and Ugo Gragnolati ()

LEM Papers Series from Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy

Abstract: Are the observed spatial distributions of firms decided mostly by market-mediated, economy-wide locational forces, or rather by non-pecuniary, sector-specific ones? This work finds that the latter kind of forces weight systematically more than the former in deciding firm location. The analysis uses Italian data on a variety of manufacturing and service sectors spatially disaggregated at the level of Local Labor Systems.

Keywords: Industrial Location; Sector-specific Agglomeration; Urbanization Economy; Maximum Likelihood Estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 L1 R3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-09-16
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-geo and nep-ure
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