Do high local customer and supply densities foster firm growth?

IF 2 Q2 ECONOMICS

Review of Regional Research-Jahrbuch fur Regionalwissenschaft Pub Date : 2023-05-30 DOI:10.1007/s10037-023-00189-2

Andreas Behr, Christoph Schiwy, Lucy Hong

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Abstract

Abstract We analyze the effect of local supplier and customer densities on employment growth, using a sample of $$19\,275$$ 19 275 German firms. We suggest a new approach to estimating firm-specific customer and supply densities through combining input-output data from the German Federal Statistical Office and firm-level data from the Orbis database. Existing empirical analyses are primarily conducted on a regional level, so that findings may depend on the regarded regional level and only provide limited insights into the existence and effects of agglomeration on growth at the firm-level. We use kernel density estimation to avoid the arbitrariness of spatial boundaries and scales, and find that the regional agglomeration patterns vary considerably between different sectors. Our econometric analysis reveals that input supplier and customer densities have a statistically significant effect on firm growth and that the firms’ age plays a crucial role in analyzing agglomeration economies.

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高的本地客户和供应密度是否促进了公司的增长?

摘要本文以$$19\,275$$ 19 275家德国企业为样本，分析了本地供应商和客户密度对就业增长的影响。我们建议采用一种新的方法，通过结合来自德国联邦统计局的投入产出数据和来自Orbis数据库的企业层面数据，来估算特定企业的客户和供应密度。现有的实证分析主要是在区域层面上进行的，因此研究结果可能依赖于所考虑的区域层面，只能在企业层面上对集聚的存在及其对增长的影响提供有限的见解。利用核密度估计避免了空间边界和尺度的任意性，发现不同扇区之间的区域集聚格局存在较大差异。我们的计量分析表明，投入供应商和客户密度对企业增长具有显著的影响，企业的年龄在集聚经济分析中起着至关重要的作用。

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Review of Regional Research-Jahrbuch fur Regionalwissenschaft ECONOMICS-

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期刊介绍： This journal publishes original theoretical and empirical research in all fields of regional science. Pursuing an interdisciplinary approach, its scientific scope includes in particular economics, geography, sociology, spatial and urban planning, transportation, environmental issues, resource management, population science and communication. The Review of Regional Research is a publication of the German-speaking section of the Regional Science Association International, i.e. the Gesellschaft für Regionalforschung. Since its inception in 1980 the journal’s primary aim has been to publish high-quality papers that make new and substantial contributions to theoretical as well as empirical issues in regional science. Submitted manuscripts are subject to a mutually anonymous peer-review process. Until 2014 the Review of Regional Research was published under the title Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft.Die Zeitschrift ist eine halbjährlich erscheinende Veröffentlichung der Gesellschaft für Regionalforschung, der deutschsprachigen Sektion der Regional Science Association International. Zentrales Anliegen der Zeitschrift ist es, neue und substantielle Beiträge zu theoretischen und empirischen Themenstellungen mit räumlichem Bezug zu publizieren. Eingereichte Manuskripte werden einem beidseitig anonymen Gutachterverfahren unterzogen. Die Zeitschrift ist interdisziplinär ausgerichtet und umfasst insbesondere die Fachrichtungen Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Geographie, Soziologie, Politologie, Raumordnung, Stadtplanung, Bevölkerungs-, Umwelt- und Verkehrswissenschaften. Als Forum der Regionalforschung in diesem umfassenden wissenschaftlichen Spektrum ist die Zeitschrift einzigartig im deutschsprachigen Raum. Official citation from 2014: Rev Reg Res