Intercity interactions: evidence from the US

Andrea Lamorgese and Gianmarco Ottaviano

No 667, 2006 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: Using national level input-output matrices, we propose a strategy to identify pecuniary externalities operating through the markets for intermediate goods at the local level. Then, controlling for common shocks in a spatial econometric framework, (i) we estimate the e®ect of pecuniary externalities on productivity growth; (ii) we disentangle such e®ect from the one of other local interactions (i.e. knowledge or other face-to-face spillovers) and that of local characteristics; (iii) we evaluate the scope of operating of all kind of externalities using di®erent distance measures. Our estimates suggest that pecuniary externalities and other kinds of local interactions coexist, that their e®ect on productivity growth is decreasing with distance and that it depends on inter-city diversity and the pattern of local specialisation

Keywords: customer and supplier driven externalities; spatial autoregressive models; dynamic factors model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R12 R15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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