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Category_ID - 5
Doc_Title - Pigs in Space: Modeling the Spatial Structure of Interior US Hog Production from 1992-97
Doc_Author - Brian Roe, Elena G. Irwin, Jeff S. Sharp
Doc_Number - AEDE-WP-0001-00
Doc_Start_Date - 06/13/2001
Doc_End_Date - 06/13/2002
Doc_URL_AddLocal - C:\WINNT\ACF1556.tmp
Tag_Functional - AED Econ Working Paper
Tag_SubUnit - Agricultural Economics,Regional and Community Economics
Tag_Program - NULL
Tag_Industry - Livestock Production Practices
Tag_Misc - NULL
Tag_Resources - Land Use,Swine
Tag_Practice - Community,Regional Economics,Rural-Urban

We estimate a reduced-form spatial lag model of county-level hog production and identify how sectoral agglomeration, input availability, firm productivity, market access, urban encroachment and local economic variables affect the locational pattern and intensity of hog production within 13 interior states during 1992 and 1997. We identify strong but declining agglomeration economies for both the hog sector and find that urban encroachment variables negatively (positively) affect the eastern (western) portion of the area considered. Key Words: Spatial Econometrics, Economics of Location, Agglomeration Economies, Swine Sector