Geographic Concentration and Establishment Scale

Thomas J. Holmes; John Stevens

doi:10.1162/003465302760556495

Geographic Concentration and Establishment Scale

Thomas J. Holmes^1,2; John Stevens^3,4

¹ University of Minnesota · ² Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis · ³ Federal Reserve · ⁴ Federal Reserve Board of Governors

The Review of Economics and Statistics 2002

This paper shows that plants located in areas where an industry concentrates are larger, on average, than plants in the same industry outside such areas. In some sectors, such as manufacturing, the differences are substantial. The connection between size and concentration is stronger than what we would expect to find if plants were randomly distributed like darts on a dartboard.

DOI: 10.1162/003465302760556495
Volume: 84 (4)
Pages: 682-690
Language: en
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