Are Apparent Productive Spillovers a Figment of Specification Error?

No 5073, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Using data on gross output for two-digit manufacturing industries, we find that an increase in the output of one manufacturing sector has little or no significant effect on the productivity of other sectors. Using value-added data, however, we confirm the results of previous studies which find that output spillovers instead appear large. We provide an explanation for these differences, showing why, with imperfect competition, the use of value-added data leads to a spurious finding of large apparent external effects.

JEL-codes: C43 D24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995-03
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Published as Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 36, pp. 165-188, 1995

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