TY - JOUR
T1 - Industrial districts, inward foreign investment and regional development
AU - Menghinello, Stefano
AU - De Propis, Lisa
AU - Driffield, Nigel
N1 - This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of economic geography following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Menghinello, S., De Propis, L., & Driffield, N. (2010). Industrial districts, inward foreign investment and regional development. Journal of economic geography, 10(4), 539-558 is available online at:http://joeg.oxfordjournals.org/content/10/4/539
PY - 2010/7/4
Y1 - 2010/7/4
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1093/jeg/lbq012
DO - 10.1093/jeg/lbq012
M3 - Article
SN - 1468-2702
VL - 10
SP - 539
EP - 558
JO - Journal of Economic Geography
JF - Journal of Economic Geography
IS - 4
M1 - lbq012
ER -