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Economías
de aglomeración en la industria |
| Autors: |
María Callejón, María Teresa Costa |
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purpose of this paper is to contribute to the ongoing applied
research on the role of external economies in the location
of manufacturing activities. The fist section of the paper
reviews a part of the traditional and recent literature on
the nature and typologies of externalities that may influence
industrial location in the absence of trade barriers, or other
kind of barriers, to the gree movement of productive factors,
inputs or outputs. It shows the dispersion of approaches within
the relevant literature, and how those new approaches that
model market structre using the paradigm of monopolistic competition
may help to improve the understanding of the nature and role
of agglomerative forces in production. The second part of
the paper consists on the estimation of an econometric location
model based on the presence of technological external economies
of two types: local own industry concentration, and local
productive diversity. The estimation uses employment data
of a set of manufacturing sectors in fifty Spanish provinces;
and the fist provisional results confirm the hypothesis that
external economies are relevant in the geographical location
of industry. |
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