In this paper, we evaluate the spatial location patterns of Spanish manufacturing firms and we assess the different tendencies to cluster in each industry relative to the whole of manufacturing. To do this, we use a distance-based method (Marcon and Puech, 2003; Duranton and Overman, 2005), more...

In this paper, we evaluate the spatial location patterns of Spanish manufacturing firms and we assess the different tendencies to cluster in each industry relative to the whole of manufacturing. To do this, we use a distance-based method (Marcon and Puech, 2003; Duranton and Overman, 2005), more...

The purpose of this paper is to test the spatial patterns in small and medium size manufacturingfirms (11 to 50 employees for small size firms and 51 to 200 for medium size firms) inBogotá, Colombia, from 2006 to 2008. For this, the Ripley´s K(r) function distance based methodis used in order...