ANALYSIS OF MECHANISMS OF SPATIAL CONCENTRATION (CASE OF SIBERIAN FEDERAL DISTRICT)

Abstract

The paper considers spatial distribution of economic activity of small business enterprises in Siberian federal district, effect of market size and communication costs on productivity is tested. Usage of results of full-scale federal statistical observation on activities of subjects of small and medium entrepreneurship conducted by Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in 2011, allows to analyse regional development on municipal level. Spatial concentration is estimated with Theil index. Local market size and intensity of interactions between agents captured by population density, market potential is used as a measure of accessibility of a municipality to other markets. Estimations of econometric models reveal significant positive relationship between mentioned above factors and performance of small and medium enterprises in different sectors of economy.

Keywords

• плотность населения
• новая экономическая география
• малый бизнес
• population density
• new economic geography
• small business