在全球都能發現產業聚集的情形且造成了龐大的外部規模經濟，我們對其背後推動的力量究竟為何感到興趣。因此這篇論文主要在探討廠商聚集行為的決定因素，包含了自然優勢、外溢和交易成本，且使用區位選擇模型加以討論。此外，我們也檢視了2003年台灣地區製造業廠商的整體與分區的聚集情形，且以迴歸模型驗證之。

This study focuses on the determinants of agglomerations, natural advantages, spillovers, and transaction costs respectively, and intends to form a location choice model with those agglomerative factors. Besides, we examine the geographic concentration scope overall and by region with the data set of manufacturing industries in Taiwan in 2003. We also explore some interesting empirical results. First, the overall geographic concentration level is slightly decreasing through 1996 to 2003. Second, the plants in the South and Middle regions of Taiwan are more concentrated than those in the North region. And each region has its own specific characteristic that draws different types of industries to locate. Third, with OLS regression we find that outsourcing dependence variable applied to proximate transaction costs effect is the most significant of all and represents that transaction costs have large influence to agglomeration scope. Finally this model can be improved from some aspects of involving distance into consideration and extending to entrepreneur across countries.

Catalog

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 4
2.1 Agglomeration Economies and Externality 4
2.2 Geographic Concentration Factors 5
2.2.1 Spillovers 6
2.2.2 Natural Advantages 7
2.2.3 Transaction Costs 7

3. Theoretical Model 9
3.1 Ellison and Glaeser Model 9
3.2 The Model of Spillovers and Transaction Costs 11
3.3 The Combined Model 14

4. Empirical Implementation 16
4.1 Data Description 16
4.2 Agglomerative Indices 16
4.3 Basic Results 18
4.3.1 The Overall Examination 18
4.3.2 Partition Discussion 22
4.3.3 Compared with Other Studies 27
4.4 Empirical Model 28
4.4.1 Variables Specification 28
4.4.2 Empirical Results 32

5. Conclusion 34

Reference 36
Appendix A 39
Appendix B 43
Appendix C 46

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