Similar Search Results

Measures of Prices and Price Competitiveness in International Trade in Manufactured Goods

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1990

international trade in manufactured goods. These include: 1. Indexes of export prices for the U.S., Germany, and Japan, based on … of domestic prices for the U. S., Germany, and Japan based on export weights; 3. Indexes for developed country exports of … exports of manufactures, and indexes for exports of the U.S., Germany, and Japan on the sane sets of weights. The indexes for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475588

Do Endowments Predict the Location of Production? Evidence from National and International Data

Bernstein, Jeffrey R. - 1998

Examining the relationship between factor endowments and production patterns using international and Japanese regional data, we provide the first empirical confirmation of Ethier's correlation approach to the Rybczynski theorem. Moreover, we find evidence of substantial production indeterminacy....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471998

Why is Growth better in the United States than in other Industrial Countries

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2017

Although the official statistics imply that the rate of growth of real GDP in the United States has declined in recent years, it has still been substantially higher than the real growth rates in Europe and the other industrial countries, leading to higher real per capita incomes. This paper...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455460

Economic Effects of Municipal Government Institutions

Zax, Jeffrey S. - 1985

This paper presents an analysis of employment and compensation practices under alternative institutions of municipal government which demonstrates that institutional variations have significant, important, and predictable effects upon outcomes in municipal labor markets. Municipal institutions...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477423

Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives

Slattery, Cailin R. - 2020

This essay describes and evaluates state and local business tax incentives in the United States. In 2014, states spent between $5 and $216 per capita on incentives for firms in the form of firm-specific subsidies and general tax credits, which mostly target investment, job creation, and research...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479128

The Targeting and Impact of Paycheck Protection Program Loans to Small Businesses

Bartik, Alexander W. - 2020

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) aimed to quickly deliver hundreds of billions of dollars of loans to small businesses, with the loans administered via private banks. In this paper, we use firm-level data to document the demand and supply of PPP funds. Using an instrumental variables...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481476

Migration Creation, Diversion, and Retention : New Deal Grants and Migration

Sorensen, Todd - 2007

During the 1930s the federal government embarked upon an ambitious series of grant programs designed to counteract the Great Depression. The amounts distributed varied widely across the country and potentially contributed to population shifts. We estimate an aggregate discrete choice model, in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465155

Railroads and Local Economic Development : The United States in the 1850s

Haines, Michael R. - 2006

Most of the estimated effects are small and the signs are not wholly consistent with either model, under the null hypothesis that agriculture was the chief beneficiary of rail access. For example, we find that rail access appears to have increased urbanization, raised the likelihood of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466284

A Search for Multiple Equilibria in Urban Industrial Structure

Davis, Donald R. - 2004

Theories featuring multiple equilibria are now widespread across many fields of economics. Yet little empirical work has asked if such multiple equilibria are salient features of real economies. We examine this in the context of the Allied bombing of Japanese cities and industries in WWII. We...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468441

The Rise of the Skilled City

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2003

For more than a century, educated cities have grown more quickly than comparable cities with less human capital. This fact survives a battery of other control variables, metropolitan area fixed effects and tests for reverse causality. We also find that skilled cities are growing because they are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468503

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last