Does manure management regulation work against agglomeration economies? Evidence from French hog production

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The well-known rise in the geographical concentration of hog production suggests the presence of agglomeration economies related to spatial spillovers and inter-dependencies among industries. In this paper, we examine whether manure management regulation restricting manure application per acre may weaken productivity gains arising from the agglomeration process. We develop a spatial model of production showing that, on the one hand, dispersion is favored when manure is applied to land as a crop nutrient and, on the other hand, agglomeration is strengthened when farmers adopt manure treatment. Estimations of a reduced form of the spatial model with a SHAC procedure applied on 1988 and 2000 French hog production data confirm the role played by the spatial spillovers and the backward and forwards relationships. Results also suggest that manure management regulation does not work against the spatial concentration of hog production, but boosts the role played by spatial spillovers in agglomeration process

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: 50th Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "Sustainable Regional Growth and Development in the Creative Knowledge Economy", 19-23 August 2010, Jönköping, Sweden

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Agriculture: General ; Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
• Subject: Hog production ; Manure management regulation ; Agglomeration economies ; Spatial Econometrics

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Gaigné, Carl ; Le Gallo, Julie ; Larue, Solène ; Schmitt, Bertrand
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): European Regional Science Association (ERSA)
• (where): Louvain-la-Neuve
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/119212
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET