作者：Conley, TG; Dupor, B
作者单位：University of Chicago; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：This paper presents a spatial econometric method for characterizing productivity comovement across sectors of the U. S. economy. Input-output relations provide an economic distance measure that is used to characterize interactions between sectors, as well as conduct estimation and inference. We construct two different economic distance measures. One metric implies that two sectors are close to one another if they use inputs of other industrial sectors in nearly the same proportion, and the oth...
