集聚经济测度方法前沿综述

本文在分析不同集聚经济形式及其理论基础后，对集聚经济的各种测度方法进行了系统的总结。发现目前集聚经济的测度方法可以概括为四类，分别是在微观层面通过分析集聚因子对企业产出或生产率的影响来直接测度、分析集聚因子对产业或区域层面总产出或平均生产率的影响来测度、分析衡量产业集聚程度的指数与产业或区域层面总产出或平均生产率之间的关系来测度，以及通过分析要素价格空间梯度特征来对集聚经济进行间接测度。

A Survey on the Methods of Measuring Agglomeration Economies

Research on agglomeration economies in China is on starting stage. For the lack of theoretical studies, empirical instruments and basic data, empirical studies in this field are scarce, and systematic studies on the existence, strengthen and forms of agglomeration economies in various industries is insufficient. This paper first discriminates different forms of agglomeration economies on theoretical basis, and then makes systematic review on different ways of measuring agglomeration economies. It concludes that all measurement can be divided into for basic groups, direct measuring by estimating the influence of agglomeration factors on firms output or productivity in micro scope, by estimating the influence of agglomeration factors on output or average productivity in industrial or area scope, by estimating the relation between output or average productivity in industrial or area scope with index measuring agglomeration levels, and indirect measuring by analyzing the gradual changing patterns of factors prices in space.