Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/115265 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
41st Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "European Regional Development Issues in the New Millennium and their Impact on Economic Policy", 29 August - 1 September 2001, Zagreb, Croatia
Publisher: 
European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Louvain-la-Neuve
Abstract: 
The present paper studies localisation economies from a service industry perspective and especially the spatial location structure of the consumer- and producer service sector in Sweden. The service sector and especially the producer input sector is assumed to handle specialised goods (inputs) and theory therefore suggests a certain degree of monopolistic chamberlinian competition amongst the firms in this sector. Theory also proposes that firms within service-industries manage so-called non-tradable items and should therefore be influenced by intra- rather than interregional demand in their location decision. The service sector is also assumed to be relatively labour intensive and is therefore dependent on a pooled labour market with specialised skills. Population density should therefore be an important determinant in determining the proliferation of those sectors in a region.
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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