Why Manufacturing Industry Persisted to Cluster Spatially in Java?  

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Kuncoro, Mudrajad

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah nasional - tidak terakreditasi DIKTI
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Business vol. 5 no. 2 (May 2003), page 221-248.
Topik: MANUFACTURING; agglomeration; concentration; NTT; NCT; NEG

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: II51.2 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This paper attempts to examine which theory is best in explaining the geograhic concentration in java, an island in which most of the indonesia's large and medium manufacturing industries have located overwhelmingly. Using the regional specialization index as a measure of geographic concentration of manufacturing industry and pooling data over the period 1991 - 1996, our econometric analysis integrates the perspectives of industry, region (space) and time. The most striking result is that most of the NCT (Neo - Classical Theory) hypotheses can be rejected. Moreover, most of the findings support the NTT (New Trade Theory) and NEG (New Economic Geography). Our findings suggest that munfacturing firms in java seek to locate in more populous and densely polulated areas to enjoy both localization economies and urbanization economies, as shown by the significance of scale economies and income per capita. The interplay of agglomeration economies is intensified by the imperfect competition of java's market structure. This paper gives empirical evidence with respect to path dependency hypotheses. This finding supports the NEG's belief that history matters : older firms tend to enhance regional specialization. In addition, the results as shown by statistical significance of its regional dummy, suggest that most of the specialized industries in java have better access to infrastructure.

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