My dissertation consists of four papers embedded within the Economic Geography field. The first paper analyzes economic growth and convergence from a time series perspective focusing on regional labor markets. The second paper uses microdata to evaluate what is termed conditional sigma...

This dissertation was motivated by the changing nature and structure of interregional trade within a country. Each region’s economic structural changes and new spatial organization of production generated by the fragmented production process made possible by an open economy with significantly...

Developing robust and refined measures to quantify strategic impacts is a major challenge facing researchers who seek toimprove methods for information technology (IT) investment evaluation. This paper presents a means to test for parameterheterogeneity in a model which quantifies the strategic...