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Competitors, complementors, parents and places: Explaining regional agglomeration in the U.S. auto industry

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  • Luis Cabral
  • Zhu Wang
  • Daniel Yi Xu

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Taking the early U.S. automobile industry as an example, we evaluate four competing hypotheses on regional industry agglomeration: intra-industry local externalities, inter-industry local externalities, employee spinouts, and location fixed-effects. Our findings suggest that inter-industry spillovers, particularly the development of the carriage and wagon industry, play an important role. Spinouts play a secondary role and only contribute to agglomeration at later stages of industry evolution. The presence of other firms in the same industry has a negligible (or maybe even negative) effect on agglomeration. Finally, location fixed-effects account for some agglomeration, though to a lesser extent than inter-industry spillovers and spinouts.

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  • Luis Cabral & Zhu Wang & Daniel Yi Xu, 2013. "Competitors, complementors, parents and places: Explaining regional agglomeration in the U.S. auto industry," Working Paper 13-04, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
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    Keywords

    Economic growth; Regional economics; Automobile industry and trade;

    JEL classification:

    • J6 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers
    • L0 - Industrial Organization - - General
    • R1 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics

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