What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns

Why do firms cluster near one another? We test Marshall's theories of industrial agglomeration by examining which industries locate near one another, or coagglomerate. We construct pairwise coagglomeration indices for US manufacturing industries from the Economic Census. We then relate coagglom...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ellison, Glenn, Glaeser, Edward L., Kerr, William R.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82638
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3164-0855