caa a22 4500 475838807 CHVBK 20180406123856.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s001680000028 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s001680000028 Ogawa Hikaru Faculty of Economics, Nagoya University, Furo-Cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan (e-mail:ogawa@soec.nagoya-u.ac.jp), JP aut Spatial impact of information technology development [Elektronische Daten] [Hikaru Ogawa] Abstract.: Concentrating on the property of information infrastructure, this paper examines the impact of publicly funded technology development on the spatial allocation of population and social welfare. Information and communication technologies attract much attention as elements of change in regional systems, industrial structures and in determining the allocation of economic activities. In particular, the expansion of information networks is expected to reduce the over-concentration of population in a built up region. In this paper, modeling the network effects and technology effects of information infrastructure supply, we firstly show that technology development may not necessarily encourage the dispersal of economic activities. Secondly, we derive an optimal rule for the central government to develop the infrastructure of information and communication. The results imply that the central government has a key role to play in ensuring the compatibility of household dispersion and an increase in the social welfare. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 https://doi.org/10.1007/s001680000028 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s001680000028 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ogawa Hikaru Faculty of Economics, Nagoya University, Furo-Cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan (e-mail:ogawa@soec.nagoya-u.ac.jp), JP aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer