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The use of business services has had an increasingly important effect on economic performance in many industries, with … supplies often determined by the local provision of business information. Consequently, an increasing research effort has … importance and geographic sources of subcontracting of business services by producer service establishments, particularly those …
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The impacts that risk perceptions have on those deciding whether to locate a business activity in an area likely to … business location decisions gathered from surveys and interviews of owners and managers of manufacturing and producer service … establishments than for manufacturing establishments. Policies of host communities to offset the loss of business establishments that …
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have significant impacts on the attraction of new, and the maintenance of existing business activities in areas in which … range of other factors to business location decisions using evidence from surveys of more than 400 manufacturing and … business service establishments in Colorado and Utah. We show that the importance of environmental amenities varies according …
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The use of business services has had an increasingly important effect on economic performance in many industries, with … supplies often determined by the local provision of business information. Consequently, an increasing research effort has … importance and geographic sources of subcontracting of business services by producer service establishments, particularly those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436237
This paper summarized findings from a Colorado and Utah survey of manufacturing and business service establishments … which provided information on the use of business services among different types of firms in this interior region of the … consistent with those found by studies in other areas. Manufacturers are not a major source of sales for business service firms …
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This paper examines economic indicators to show how the role of the real estate industry in the economy has evolved over time. This examination spans the early 1980s through 1999. Our key conclusion includes the followings. In terms of economic flows real estate is as important a part of the...
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In the U.S., households participate in two very different types of credit markets. Personal lending is characterized by continuous risk-based pricing in which lenders offer households a continuous distribution of borrowing possibilities based on estimates of their creditworthiness. This...
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Although nonprime lending has experienced steady or even explosive growth over the last decade very little is known about the performance characteristics of these mortgages. Using data from national secondary market institutions, this paper estimates a competing risks proportional hazard model,...
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Local authorities in North Carolina, and subsequently in at least 23 other states, have enacted laws intending to reduce predatory and abusive lending. While there is substantial variation in the laws, they typically extend the coverage of the Federal Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act...
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Subprime mortgage lending has grown rapidly in recent years and with it, so have concerns about predatory lending. In response to evidence of predatory lending, most states have enacted new laws or expanded existing laws to address abuses in the subprime home loan market. The effect of these...
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