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Menghinello, Stefano, De Propris, L. and Driffield, Nigel L. (2010) Industrial districts, inward foreign investment and regional development. Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 10 (Number 4). pp. 539-558. doi:10.1093/jeg/lbq012 ISSN 1468-2702.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbq012
Abstract
This article compares the importance of agglomerations of local firms, and inward FDI as drivers of regional development. The empirical analysis exploits a unique panel dataset of the Italian manufacturing sector at the regional and industry levels. We explore whether FDI and firm agglomeration can be drivers of total factor productivity (separately and jointly), with this effect being robust to different estimators, and different assumptions about inter-regional effects. In particular, we isolate one form of firm agglomeration that is especially relevant in the Italian context, industrial districts, in order to ascertain their impact on productivity. In so doing, we distinguish standard agglomeration and localization economies from industrial districts to understand what additional impact the latter has on standard agglomeration effects. Interaction effects between FDI spillovers and different types of agglomeration economies shed some light on the heterogeneity of regional development patterns as well as on the opportunity to fine tune policy measures to specific regional contexts.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Economic Geography | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1468-2702 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | July 2010 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | Volume 10 | ||||||||
| Number: | Number 4 | ||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 19 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 539-558 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/jeg/lbq012 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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