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Spatial Effects in Industrial Location Choices: Industry Characteristics and Urban Accessibility
Author(s) -
ArtalTur Andrés,
Navarro-Azorín José Miguel,
AlamáSabater María Luisa,
BrionesPeñalver Antonio Juan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/tesg.12011
Subject(s) - economic geography , neighbourhood (mathematics) , scope (computer science) , business , multinomial logistic regression , manufacturing , industrial organization , empirical research , affect (linguistics) , econometrics , marketing , economics , computer science , mathematics , statistics , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , programming language
In this paper we study how neighbourhood‐related spillovers affect location choices of manufacturing firms at a local level. A spatial Dirichlet‐multinomial regression model is applied to 90,000 new establishments of the S panish M editerranean A xis. Empirical findings show that spatial spillovers play an important role, together with traditional explanatory factors, in driving decisions of companies. Their size and scope depends on two main issues, the specific characteristics of the manufacturing industry the firm belongs to, and the accessibility of the urban environment where the firm is located.