Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/147395 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6141
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper builds on the work of Acemoglu et al. (2012) and considers a production network with unobserved common technological factor and establishes general conditions under which the network structure contributes to aggregate fluctuations. It introduces the notions of strongly and weakly dominant units, and shows that at most a finite number of units in the network can be strongly dominant, while the number of weakly dominant units can rise with N (the cross section dimension). This paper further establishes the equivalence between the highest degree of dominance in a network and the inverse of the shape parameter of the power law. A new extremum estimator for the degree of pervasiveness of individual units in the network is proposed, and is shown to be robust to the choice of the underlying distribution. Using Monte Carlo techniques, the proposed estimator is shown to have satisfactory small sample properties. Empirical applications to US input-output tables suggest the presence of production sectors with a high degree of pervasiveness, but their effects are not sufficiently pervasive to be considered as strongly dominant.
Subjects: 
aggregate fluctuations
strongly and weakly dominant units
spatial models
outdegrees
degree of pervasiveness
power law
input-output tables
US economy
JEL: 
C12
C13
C23
C67
E32
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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