Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/3817 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1276
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
The paper extends the methodological toolbox of measures of industrial concentration and regional specialization. First, a taxonomy is proposed which gives rise to a modular construction system for disproportionality measures based on three characteristic features: the projection function, the reference distribution, and the weighting scheme. The taxonomy helps reduce the mismatch between research purpose, data and statistical measure which has been one of the major obstacles to reliable inferences in the literature. Second, the taxonomy is extended (i) to measures of polarization which evaluate specialization and concentration simultaneously and allow for a nested analysis at different spatial and industrial scales, and (ii) to spatial concentration measures which deal with the checkerboard problem and MAUP by taking into account information from neighboring regions.
Subjects: 
Regional specialization
Industrial concentration
Economic polarization
Geographical weighting
statistical measures
JEL: 
F15
R12
C43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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