During its early and formative years, the U.S. tire industry was heavily concentrated around Akron, Ohio. We test the extent to which entrants in Ohio were attracted to the Akron area by agglomeration benefits, contributing to a self-reinforcing process envisioned in many modern theories of...

The extent to which domestic and foreign operations of multinational corporations (MNCs) are related has important implications for the analysis of investment demand and its responsiveness to tax policy. We estimate the structural parameters of a model in which domestic and foreign investment...

In this paper, we consider a steel coil storage and distribution problem for a steel producing company. The company has several warehouses, and relocations of steel coils to different warehouses before they are dispatched are inevitable. These relocations are driven by a lack of capacity or the...