Plants' self-selection, agglomeration economies and regional productivity in Chile
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12694307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hisamitsu Saito (0000-0002-8090-3538, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, corresponding author), Munisamy Gopinath (0000-0002-6249-7548, Oregon State University) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 539-558 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2702 • E-ISSN: 1468-2710 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jeg/lbp010 |
| OpenAlex | W2135599725 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 27 |
In this study, we assess the relative contribution of plants' self-selection and agglomeration economies to a region's productivity level. We focus on manufacturing plants by region in the Chilean food industry, which is not only a major source of employment and exports but also spatially dispersed. Our estimation of plant-level productivity corrects for possible simultaneity between productivity and conventional inputs and plants' self-selection to locate in specific markets. Moreover, we account for three sources of externalities: localization, urbanization and demand-driven scale economies in our estimation. Then, a censored regression model relates regional productivity-distribution measures to agglomeration economies. We find that high-productivity (exporting) plants locate in a region where other plants in food industry agglomerate, industrial structure is diversified and market size is large. Our results suggest that plants' self-selection outweighs the contribution of agglomeration economies in increasing a region's productivity level
Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economies of agglomeration · Economies of scale · Estimation · Externality · Industrial organization · Macroeconomics · Microeconomics · Productivity · Selection (genetic algorithm · Simultaneity · Urbanization · Global trade and economics · Regional Development and Innovation · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |