TY  - JOUR
AU  - Greenstein,Shane M.
AU  - Lizardo,Mercedes M.
AU  - Spiller,Pablo T.
TI  - The Evolution of Advanced Large Scale Information Infrastructure in the United States
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5929
PY  - 1997
Y2  - February 1997
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5929
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5929.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Shane Greenstein
The Elinor and Wendell Hobbs Professor
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University
2001 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL  60208-2013
Tel: 847/467-5672
Fax: 847/467-1777
E-Mail: greenstein@kellogg.northwestern.edu

Pablo T. Spiller
University of California
Walter A. Haas School of Business
Faculty Bldg. 593
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tel: 510/642-1502
Fax: 510/642-2826
E-Mail: spiller@haas.berkeley.edu
AB  - Is private industry investing in backbone digital technology in a manner consistent with social policy?  To address this question we assemble highly disaggregate data and compute indices for the geographic distribution of advanced backbone information technology in computing and telecommunications, focusing on recent changes in the indices.  Our evidence suggests that the stock of advanced information technology capital, and access to it, became more equally distributed across the U.S. between the mid 1980s and early 1990s.  In light of these findings there needs to be careful rethinking of the current policy concerns about the distribution of backbone technologies.
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