Agglomeration Economies within IT-Producing and IT-Consuming
Industries in U.S. Regions
Simon Condliffe
University of Delaware
William R. Latham III
University of Delaware - Department of Economics
Christian Le Bas
University of Lyon 2
Frédéric Miribel
affiliation not provided to SSRN
July 17, 2008
Abstract:
We extend the agglomeration economies literature (1) by comparing the effects on productivity of geographic concentrations in IT activity and all other activity and (2) by distinguishing between the effects of IT-producing and IT-using sectors on productivity. Four measures of agglomeration for U.S. states and counties are tested in a total labor productivity model which includes each region's capital-output ratio and the quality of the labor supply. The cross section estimates yield mixed results. We find evidence of an effect of concentration of IT on productivity for states level and find stronger effects at the county level from IT-producing concentrations.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 28
Keywords: Agglomeration, Information Technology, Productivity
JEL Classification: R11, O33, D24, D62
working papers series
Suggested Citation
Condliffe, Simon, Latham, William R., Le Bas, Christian and Miribel, Frédéric, Agglomeration Economies within IT-Producing and IT-Consuming
Industries in U.S. Regions (July 17, 2008). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1162373 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1162373
