TY - JOUR
T1 - Delineating the regional market in studies of intercity competition
AU - Basolo, Victoria
AU - Lowery, David
N1 - Funding Information:
1This research was funded by the National Science Foundation, under Grant No. SBER-9630638, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The authors are solely responsible for the accuracy of the statements and interpretations contained in this article. Any opinions, findings, interpretations, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the U.S. government. 2Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Victoria Basolo, Department of Planning, Policy, and Design, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-7075; telephone: 949-824-3521; fax: 949-824-8566; email: [email protected]
PY - 2010/4/1
Y1 - 2010/4/1
N2 - Urban theorists and researchers often identify interjurisdictional competition within a regional market as a factor in public policy decisions. Although empirical studies present various measures of interjurisdictional competition, they define the spatial contours of the "regional market" differently with no critical assessment of their delineations. We theoretically and empirically assess three measures of intercity competition, including two approaches commonly found in the literature, as well as a third, new measure using the concept of distance to identify the regional market area. For our empirical assessment, we regress each measure and a set of contextual variables on total city expenditures per capita using a random sample of U.S. cities. We conclude that all the measures of competition have some theoretical validity and influence city expenditures per capita as predicted, but we recommend one measure based on validity, reliability, data accessibility, and ease of computation.
AB - Urban theorists and researchers often identify interjurisdictional competition within a regional market as a factor in public policy decisions. Although empirical studies present various measures of interjurisdictional competition, they define the spatial contours of the "regional market" differently with no critical assessment of their delineations. We theoretically and empirically assess three measures of intercity competition, including two approaches commonly found in the literature, as well as a third, new measure using the concept of distance to identify the regional market area. For our empirical assessment, we regress each measure and a set of contextual variables on total city expenditures per capita using a random sample of U.S. cities. We conclude that all the measures of competition have some theoretical validity and influence city expenditures per capita as predicted, but we recommend one measure based on validity, reliability, data accessibility, and ease of computation.
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U2 - 10.2747/0272-3638.31.3.369
DO - 10.2747/0272-3638.31.3.369
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77649136687
SN - 0272-3638
VL - 31
SP - 369
EP - 384
JO - Urban Geography
JF - Urban Geography
IS - 3
ER -