The Origin and Location of Entrants in the Evolution of the U.S. Tire Industry

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The Origin and Location of Entrants in the Evolution of the U.S. Tire Industry

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G. Buenstorf ()
S. Klepper

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During its early and formative years, the U.S. tire industry was heavily concentrated around Akron, Ohio. We test the extent to which entrants in Ohio were attracted to the Akron area by agglomeration benefits, contributing to a self-reinforcing process envisioned in many modern theories of geography. We trace the geographic and intellectual heritage of the Ohio entrants and analyze the factors underlying their creation and location at the county level. Our findings suggest it was the creation of entrants, largely spurred by the supply of entrepreneurs, and not the attraction of entrants to the Akron area that fueled the agglomeration of the industry there.

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Paper provided by Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group in its series Papers on Econonmics and Evolution with number 2004-07.

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L65 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - Chemicals; Rubber; Drugs; Biotechnology
R12 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
R39 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - Production Analysis and Firm Location - - - Other

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NEP-ALL-2004-05-26 (All new papers)
NEP-COM-2004-05-26 (Industrial Competition)
NEP-ENT-2004-05-26 (Entrepreneurship)
NEP-GEO-2004-05-26 (Economic Geography)
NEP-URE-2004-05-26 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)

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