Creative milieu and firm location: An empirical appraisal
利用加泰罗尼亚制造业登记册的工厂级微观数据，研究发现创意与非创意产业的选址决定因素相似，且两者都受创意产业专业化水平的正向影响，同时存在未观测的“创意环境”显著吸引企业。
This paper focuses on the creative industries – those industries that produce and commercialise creative goods and services – and the role played by the existing spatial distribution and agglomeration economies of these kinds of activities in their location decisions. Our main statistical source is the Register of Manufacturing Establishments of Catalonia (REIC), which has plant-level microdata on the location of new plants. We use count data models to show that location determinants are quite similar in both creative and non-creative industries and that both industries are positively influenced by the specialisation level of creative industries. Moreover, our results provide evidence that an unobserved ‘ creative milieu’ has a considerable impact on attracting firms.