Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/39443 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Wirtschaftstheoretische Diskussionsbeiträge No. 05-04
Publisher: 
Universität Dortmund, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Dortmund
Abstract: 
This paper tests the hypothesis that product market competition has a negative impact on spatial agglomeration. This hypothesis emerges as an interpetation of the models by Combes and Duranton (2001) and Alsleben (2005) which are about firms' location choice in the presence of knowledge spillovers. Using data for German manufacturing industries, the result is that, while controlling for other agglomeration forces, higher industrial concentration, measured by the Herfindahl index of concentration of sales, implies stronger spatial agglomeration, as measured by Ellison and Glaeser's (1997) index of concentration.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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