Heterogeneous Agglomeration

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo; Strange, William C.
• 署名单位: City St Georges, University of London; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Toronto
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00604
• 发表日期: 2017-03
• 页码: 80-94
• 关键词: geographic concentration; spillovers; INNOVATION; coagglomeration; PRODUCTIVITY; localization; industry; location

摘要

Many prior treatments of agglomeration explicitly or implicitly assume that all industries agglomerate for the same reasons. This paper uses U.K. establishment-level coagglomeration data to document substantial heterogeneity across industries in the microfoundations of agglomeration economies. It finds robust evidence of organizational and adaptive agglomeration forces as discussed by Chinitz (1961), Vernon (1960), and Jacobs (1969). These forces interact with the traditional Marshallian (1890) factors of input sharing, labor pooling, and knowledge spillovers, establishing a previously unrecognized complementarity between the approaches of Marshall and Jacobs, as well as others, to the analysis of agglomeration.