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Measures of the geographic concentration of industries: improving distance-based methods

Florence Puech

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We discuss a property of distance-based measures that has not been addressed with regard to evaluating the geographic concentration of economic activities. The article focuses on the choice between a probability density function of point-pair distances or a cumulative function. We begin by introducing a new cumulative function, M, for evaluating the relative geographic concentration and the co-location of industries in a non-homogeneous spatial framework. Secondly, some rigorous comparisons are made with the leading probability density function of Duranton and Overman (2005), Kd. The merits of the simultaneous use of Kd and M is proved, underlining the complementary nature of the results they provide.
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halshs-04366663, version 1 (29-12-2023)

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Eric Marcon, Florence Puech. Measures of the geographic concentration of industries: improving distance-based methods. Journal of Economic Geography, 2010, 10 (5), pp.745-762. ⟨halshs-04366663⟩
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