TY - DATA T1 - Distance-based agglomeration externalities and neighbouring firms’ characteristics PY - 2017/09/06 AU - Giulio Cainelli AU - Roberto Ganau UR - https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Distance-based_agglomeration_externalities_and_neighbouring_firms_characteristics/5379154 DO - 10.6084/m9.figshare.5379154.v1 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/9253096 KW - distance-based agglomeration KW - neighbourhood characteristics KW - total factor productivity KW - manufacturing KW - Italy KW - C3 KW - D24 KW - R12 N2 - This paper tests the hypothesis that firms with different characteristics can differ in their capability to produce local externalities by investigating the relationship between firm-specific distance-based weighted agglomeration measures and firms’ short-run productivity growth in the Italian manufacturing industry. The results suggest that positive localization economies increase with distance when neighbouring firms’ characteristics are accounted for. Diversification-type forces have negative effects on productivity growth at short distances, while there are positive effects at longer distances regardless of the weighting scheme considered. Moreover, the negative effect of inter-industry externalities seems to persist over distance when neighbouring firms’ characteristics are accounted for. ER -