Studies on the level of industrial agglomeration between the States of Brazil
industrial agglomeration, new economic geography, ellison e glaeser index, panel data
Industrial concentration is capable of changing all the characteristics of certain regions, often in a constructive way, sometimes destructive. It is important to notice that depending on the locality, some characteristics become the key of the attraction of new industries: productive traditions, types of work and the consumers profile are some examples. The New Economic Geography Theory, whose main authors are Krugman (1991), Fujita (2010), Venables (1996) and Thisse (1996), brings the effects of market location and there for, industrial agglomerations. Studiesare conducted from the Marshallian Trinity (knowledge overflow, input suppliers and worker specialization) and the Dixit-Stiglitz Monopolistic Competition Model, examining how economies of scale, increasing returns and transport costs can encourage or justify the concentration of firms in certain localities. In order to understand the importance and influence of factors such as transportation, natural resources on the industrial concentration of the Brazilian States, this essayclaims and promotes an analysis that investigates the main reasons that influence the industrial concentration in the Brazilian states from 2003 to 2009. An econometric model of panel data will be used. It considers the Ellison and Glaeser Concentration Index as a dependent variable to explain the intensity of the impacts caused by variables related to externalities and natural resources. As data source, we will mostly use data found in the Annual Relation of Social Information (RAIS) and the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).