Inter-County Spillovers in California's Ports and Roads Infrastructure: The Impact on Retail Trade

Cohen, Jeffrey; Monaco, Kristen A.

Not Available for Download

Add Paper to My Library

Inter-County Spillovers in California's Ports and Roads Infrastructure: The Impact on Retail Trade

Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences (2009) 2: 77. doi:10.1007/s12076-009-0025-9

Posted: 11 Aug 2016

See all articles by Jeffrey Cohen

Jeffrey Cohen

University of Connecticut - School of Business; Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Kristen A. Monaco

California State University, Long Beach - Department of Economics

Date Written: 2009

Abstract

Using county-level data, we analyze the impact of ports infrastructure investment on the retail trade sector in California. We include the level of ports infrastructure stocks in own and neighboring counties as shift variables in the production function and find significant evidence of spatial autocorrelation. There are unambiguous positive spillover effects from ports infrastructure on the retail trade sector in adjacent counties.

Keywords: sea ports, spillovers, spatial autocorrelation

JEL Classification: L91, R12

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Cohen, Jeffrey and Monaco, Kristen A., Inter-County Spillovers in California's Ports and Roads Infrastructure: The Impact on Retail Trade (2009). Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences (2009) 2: 77. doi:10.1007/s12076-009-0025-9, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2819619