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| Author: | Beardsell, M. Henderson, V. |
| Title: | Spatial evolution of the computer industry in the USA |
| Journal: | European Economic Review
1999 : FEB, VOL. 43:2, p. 431-456 |
| Index terms: | COMPUTER INDUSTRY USA LOCATION OF INDUSTRY EXTERNALITIES |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The paper examines the spatial evolution of computers across 317 metro areas in the USA since the introduction of the personal computer. It is started with examining the relative distribution of employment across cities examining how that distribution changes in 1977--1992 and how cities move through the distribution. For computers, transition matrices are stationary. There is no tendency of the relative size distribution of computer employment to collapse etc. Overall computers exhibit some turbulence. In attracting or repelling an industry, urban heterogeneity is important. Strong evidence of significant dynamic own industry externalities is found. Little evidence is found of urbanization-Jacobs-knowledge type externalities. |
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