The Economics of Industrial Location: Agglomeration, Co-agglomeration, and Inventory Management

The returns to industrial co-location are central to the fields of regional and urban economics and are consistently used to explain the historical formation of the large industrial corridors that dot the world''s economic landscape. By broadly addressing the sources of industrial co-location, The Economics of Industrial Location develops an analytical framework whereby the phenomena of industrial agglomeration and co-agglomeration can be analyzed simultaneously. Applying this framework, evidence emerges to suggest inter-industry technological linkages and transportation costs help to promote co-agglomeration while transportation costs in the presence of dispersed markets help mitigate agglomeration. Additionally, by incorporating industrial co-location into a standard inventory management model, this book identifies inventory holdings as a unique channel through which co-location can influence businesses'' operations and costs.