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Misura e determinanti dell�agglomerazione spaziale nei comparti industriali in Italia

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  • Marcello Pagnini

    (Banca d�Italia-Sede di Bologna)

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This paper is concerned with spatial agglomeration across industrial sectors in Italy. Following the seminal article by Ellison and Glaeser, agglomeration indexes that simultaneously control for the effect of chance and size structure of industries are presented. In particular, I compute agglomeration across 100 industrial manufacturing sectors in Italy in 1996. The empirical evidence shows that for an overwhelmingly majority of sectors centripetal forces prevail over centrifugal ones. In a regression analysis, I also look at the determinants of agglomeration across sectors. Consistently with the literature on urban economics, I find that agglomeration is fostered by both the human capital intensity of a sector and its propensity to innovate. On the contrary, transportation costs per chilometer and the usage of land as production factor act as forces of dispersion. I conclude that industries where information spillovers are more relevant tend to be more agglomerated than the others. The negative influence of transportation costs on agglomeration implies that falling trade barriers between regions may lead to more geographic concentration of the economic activities.

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  • Marcello Pagnini, 2002. "Misura e determinanti dell�agglomerazione spaziale nei comparti industriali in Italia," Temi di discussione (Economic working papers) 452, Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area.
  • Handle: RePEc:bdi:wptemi:td_452_02
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    Cited by:

    1. Andrea Bonaccorsi & Lucia Piscitello & Cristina Rossi, 2007. "Explaining the Territorial Adoption of New Technologies: A Spatial Econometric Approach," Chapters, in: Koen Frenken (ed.), Applied Evolutionary Economics and Economic Geography, chapter 12, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. Valter Di Giacinto & Marcello Pagnini, 2008. "Agglomeration within and between regions: Two econometric based indicators," Temi di discussione (Economic working papers) 674, Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area.
    3. S. Lodde, 2007. "Specialization and Concentration of the Manufacturing Industry in the Italian Local Labor Systems," Working Paper CRENoS 200716, Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia.

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    Keywords

    spatial agglomeration; information spillovers; transport costs;
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    JEL classification:

    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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