Competitors, Complementors, Parents and Places: Explaining Regional Agglomeration in the U.S. Auto Industry

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Luis M. B. Cabral

New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business - Department of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Zhu Wang

Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Zhu Wang

Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Daniel Yi Xu

Duke University

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Date Written: April 2013

Abstract

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 work as a special type of intra-industry spillovers. The presence of other firms in the same industry has a negligible (or even negative) effect. Finally, local inputs account for some agglomeration in the short run, but the effects are much more profound in the long run.

Suggested Citation

Cabral, Luis M. B. and Wang, Zhu and Wang, Zhu and Yi Xu, Daniel, Competitors, Complementors, Parents and Places: Explaining Regional Agglomeration in the U.S. Auto Industry (April 2013). NBER Working Paper No. w18973, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2479719

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