Neighborhood and Efficiency in Manufacturing in Brazilian Regions Journal Articles

abstract

• This paper analyzes the geography of regional competitiveness in manufacturing in Brazil. The authors estimate stochastic frontiers to calculate regional efficiency of representative firms in 137 regions in the period 2000–2006, in four sectors defined by technological intensity. The efficiency results are analyzed using Markov Spatial Transition Matrices to provide insights into the transition of regions between efficiency levels, considering their local spatial context. The results indicate that geography plays an important role in manufacturing competitiveness. In particular, regions with more competitive neighbors are more likely to improve their relative efficiency (pull effect) over time, and regions with less competitive neighbors are more likely to lose relative efficiency (drag effect). The authors find that the pull effect is stronger than the drag effect.

authors

• Schettini, Daniela
• Azzoni, Carlos R
• Paez, Hector Antonio

status

• published 

publication date

• October 2011

has subject area

• 1205 Urban and Regional Planning (FoR)
• 1499 Other Economics (FoR)
• 1604 Human Geography (FoR)
• Urban & Regional Planning (Science Metrix)

published in

• International Regional Science Review  Journal

keywords

• DETERMINANTS
• ECONOMIC-GROWTH
• Environmental Sciences & Ecology
• Environmental Studies
• INCREASING RETURNS
• Life Sciences & Biomedicine
• PRODUCTIVITY
• Public Administration
• Regional & Urban Planning
• Science & Technology
• Social Sciences
• Urban Studies
• manufacturing
• neighborhood and efficiency
• production function
• spatial markov Chains
• stochastic production frontier

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/0160017611403141

start page

• 397

end page

• 418

volume

• 34

issue

• 4