Geography, Industrial Organization, and Agglomeration

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Stuart S. Rosenthal, Syracuse University. Center for Policy ResearchFollow
William C. Strange, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management

Description/Abstract

This paper makes two contributions to the empirical literature on agglomeration economies. First, the paper uses a unique and rich database in conjunction with mapping software to measure the geographic extent and nature of agglomerative externalities. Previous papers have been forced to assume that agglomeration economies are club goods that operate at a metropolitan scale. Second, the paper tests for the existence of organizational agglomeration economies of the kind studied qualitatively by Saxenian (1994). This is a potentially important source of increasing returns that previous empirical work has not considered. Results indicate that localization economies attenuate rapidly and that industrial organization affects the benefits of agglomeration.

Document Type

Working Paper

Date

1999

Keywords

General aggregate models, industrial organization, agglomeration economies, organizational agglomeration economies, localization economies

Language

English

Series

Working Papers Series

Disciplines

Economics

Additional Information

Harvest from RePEc at http://repec.org

Recommended Citation

Rosenthal, Stuart S. and Strange, William C., "Geography, Industrial Organization, and Agglomeration" (1999). Center for Policy Research. 146.
https://surface.syr.edu/cpr/146

Source

Metadata from RePEc