The impact of spatial concentration on enterprise performance
The objective of this paper is to reveal the impact of spatial concentration of business in the Russian cities on enterprise productivity. The hypotheses are the following: urbanization level and home market potential positively affect enterprise performance; localization economies are positive an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Экономика региона |
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| Online Access: | http://www.economyofregion.com/archive/2015/57/2712/pdf/ |
| Summary: | The objective of this paper is to reveal the impact of spatial concentration of business in the Russian cities
on enterprise productivity. The hypotheses are the following: urbanization level and home market potential
positively affect enterprise performance; localization economies are positive and start decreasing after
some point due to congestion and excessive competition; regional transport infrastructure, business climate
and human capital positively affect enterprise performance. We use firm level data augmented with city and
regional data. Fixed effects are applied in order to deal with endogeneity. Agglomeration economies are considered
in the light of opportunities for knowledge spillovers, input sharing and labor market pooling. Our results
confirm that agglomeration economies and home market potential are important for the enterprise performance.
We find positive urbanization and diversity economies, while localization economies have an inverted
U shape. Results can be used to improve regional policy. For instance, significance of home market potential
emphasizes the importance of transport infrastructure. Significance of agglomeration effects implies
that if a sufficiently large number of firms work in a city, performance of each firm improves. |
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| ISSN: | 2072-6414 2411-1406 |