Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1276:
Disproportionality Measures of Concentration, Specialization, and Polarization
Frank Bickenbach and Eckhardt Bode
Abstract: The paper extends the methodological toolbox of measures
of industrial concentration and regional specialization. First, a taxonomy
is proposed which gives rise to a modular construction system for
disproportionality measures based on three characteristic features: the
projection function, the reference distribution, and the weighting scheme.
The taxonomy helps reduce the mismatch between research purpose, data and
statistical measure which has been one of the major obstacles to reliable
inferences in the literature. Second, the taxonomy is extended (i) to
measures of polarization which evaluate specialization and concentration
simultaneously and allow for a nested analysis at different spatial and
industrial scales, and (ii) to spatial concentration measures which deal
with the checkerboard problem and MAUP by taking into account information
from neighboring regions.
Keywords: statistical measures, regional specialization, industrial concentration, economic polarization, geographical weighting; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: C43,; F15,; R12; (follow links to similar papers)
25 pages, May 2006
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