Dartboard tests for the location quotient

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2009

Authors

Paulo Guimaraes (Author) FEP; Octávio Figueiredo (Author) FEP; Douglas Woodward (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Regional Science and Urban Economics

Vol. 39 No. 3

Pages: 360-364

ISSN: 0166-0462

Publisher: Elsevier

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Scientific classification

FOS: Social sciences > Other social sciences

CORDIS: Social sciences > Economics

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-003-KMV

DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2008.12.003

Abstract (EN): In this paper we reinterpret the location quotient. the commonly employed measure of regional industrial agglomeration, as an estimator derived from Ellison and Glaeser [Ellison, G., and Glaeser, E., 1997. Geographic concentration in U.S. manufacturing industries: a dartboard approach. journal of Political Economy 105 (5), 889-927.] dartboard framework. This approach provides a theoretical foundation on which to build statistical tests for the measure. With a simple application. we show that these tests provide valuable information about the accuracy of the location quotient. The tests are relatively easy to implement using regional employment and establishment data.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 5