Part Iii Linkages and Externalities

Changes in Agglomeration Economies and Linkage Externalities for Japanese Urban Manufacturing Industries: 1990 and 2000

Urban agglomeration economies are usually divided into two categories: urbanization economies and localization economies. In the 1970s and 1980s, a number of attempts were made to estimate urbanization economies and/or localization economies directly in the production function. Since the work by Glaeser et al. in 1992, however, historical effects on agglomeration called dynamic externalities in...

An Empirical Study of the Impact of Information Technology Externalities on the Audit Production Function

Numerous studies have evaluated how a firm’s IT choices affect its production efficiency (Alpar and Kim 1990; Banker et al. 1990; Lee and Menon 2000). However, there has been little attention paid to how the IT choices of one organization affect the costs of other organizations in its value chain. As IT expands the scope of interorganizational linkages in a connected economy, managers must cons...

8 Dynamic Externalities and Structural Change in Kenya

Economic development and structural transformation are dynamic processes in which sectoral interactions are numerous and multidirectional. Recent growth literature has noted that many of these effects occur in the form of externalities not captured in a neoclassical accounting of intersectoral resource flows and price adjustments. This work has emphasized, for example, that increasing returns p...

Information And Communication Technology Externalities And Economic Growth In Newly Industrialized Countries

Analysis of Electricity Generation’s Externalities on Sectorial Output Growth and Welfare in Iran

Environmental problems are one of the most challenging issues for the entire world and each country. In economic studies, environmental issues are analyzed as negative externalities. In this article, the negative externalities of electricity production on the output growth of different sectors and household’s welfare in Iran’s economy have been studied through price system using Computable Gene...