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doi:10. 1111/j.1435-5957.2009.00226.x The scope of agglomeration economies: Evidence from Catalonia* Jordi Jofre-Monseny1 1 Universitat de Barcelona Institut d’Economia de Barcelona, Dpt. D’Economia Política i Hisenda Pública, Avda. Diagonal 690, Torre 4, Planta 2a, 08034 Barcelona, Spain (e-mail: jordi.jofre@ub.edu) Received: 14 January 2008 / Accepted: 28 October 2008 Abstract. This paper is an empirical study of the geographic and industrial scope of agglom- eration economies. We also explore if small establishments make better neighbours than their larger counterparts. We address these issues by studying the effects of local industrial charac- teristics on the location decisions of new establishments using the random profit maximization framework. We carry out separate econometric estimations for seven industries in Catalonia, a Spanish region, using data from 1995–2002. Agglomeration economies seem to work at a very local level. Evidence of localization, urbanization and diversity effects is found. There is no strong evidence that establishments prefer to be located near to small rather than large establishments. JEL classification: L25, R30 Key words: Agglomeration economies, firm location, conditional logit, Poisson regression 1 Introduction External effects exist when the economic scale of a firm’s geographical location enhances its productivity (Rosenthal and Strange 2004). There is a substantial body of literature on the question of why firms co-locate in space and how this co-localization results in productivity differences across firms in different locations.1 The existence of these external scale effects has important policy implications. A good understanding of these phenomena can help to design policies aimed at fostering the development of particular industries at the local and regional level and guiding more general