The Impact of Aging and Technological Relatedness on Agglomeration Externalities
Författare
Summary, in English
We study localization, urbanization and Jacobs’ externality effects on plant survival in Sweden (1970–2004). We focus on two questions: (i) do agglomeration externalities change with the age of plants? and (ii) what is the role of technological relatedness among local industries? We find that agglomeration externalities affect survival chances of plants. This effect, however, differs between corporate and non-affiliated plants. Furthermore, we find that Jacobs’ externalities benefit only young plants, whereas urbanization externalities harm plants at all ages. Localization externalities are insignificant, while the local presence of technologically related industries substantially increases survival rates of plants.
Publiceringsår
2012
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
485-517
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Economic Geography
Volym
12
Issue
2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Oxford University Press
Ämne
- Human Geography
Nyckelord
- agglomeration
- externalities
- nursety cities
- Cox Regression
- Aalen
- plant survival
- Sweden
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1468-2702