Arbeitspapier
Testing Urbanization Economies in Manufacturing Industries: Urban Diversity or Urban Size?
Whether urbanization economies stem from urban diversity or urban scale is not clear in the literature. This paper uses the 2004 China manufacturing census data and tests simultaneously the effects of urban size and industrial diversity on firm productivity, controlling for localization economies and human capital externalities. We find that productivity increases with city size—but at a diminishing rate, and the city size effect becomes negative for cities with population over two million. Firms also benefit from industrial diversity, and the strength of such benefit increases with city size but decreases with firm size. The characteristics of agglomeration economies in a transition economy are also discussed.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: EERI Research Paper Series ; No. 38/2010
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location: General
- Thema
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Urbanization economies
Industrial diversity
Jacobs externalities
City size
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Fu, Shihe
Hong, Junjie
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI)
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Brussels
- (wann)
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2010
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Fu, Shihe
- Hong, Junjie
- Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI)
Entstanden
- 2010