This paper reviews research that uses longitudinal microdata to document productivity
movements and to examine factors behind productivity growth. The research explores the …

Economic development and underdevelopment is one aspect of the uneven spatial
distribution of economic activity. This paper reviews existing literature on geography and …

General purpose technologies like information technology typically require complementary
firmspecific investments to create value. These complementary investments produce a form …

This paper considers the empirical literature on the nature and sources of urban increasing
returns, also known as agglomeration economies. An important aspect of these externalities …

We explore the effect of computerization on productivity and output growth using data from
527 large US firms over 1987–1994. We find that computerization makes a contribution to …

This paper examines how urban industrial agglomeration interacts with the intra-and inter-
regional externalities resulting from foreign direct investment (FDI) in city innovation in an …

IN DEVELOPED ECONOMIES, production requires not only such traditional factors as
capital and labor but also skills, organizational structures and processes, culture, and other …

Two of the defining characteristics of the US economy in the late 1990's were faster labor
productivity growth and strong investment in information technology (IT) assets. Why? Is …

We analyze the market for corporate assets. There is an active market for corporate assets,
with close to seven percent of plants changing ownership annually through mergers …

The volume on New Directions in Spatial Econometrics appeared in 1995 as one of the first
in the then new Springer series on Advances in Spatial Sciences. It very quickly became …