postwar sectoral U.S. manufacturing equipment and structures investment. For a given sequence of aggregate shocks, the … counterpart. These features fit well the observed positive skewness and large kurtosis of U.S. manufacturing sectoral investment …

external economies. We apply the method in estimating returns to scale indexes for U.S. manufacturing industries at the two …-digit level. Overall, we find that only three of the twenty industry categories show any evidence of internal increasing returns … to the U.S.. According to our preferred estimates, if all manufacturing industries simultaneously raise their inputs by …

The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze …-level and technology class-level patent production. Accompanying this fall in innovation, global employment, sales …

parameters. The model was estimated for the U.S. total manufacturing sector. Our estimate for the depreciation rate of physical …

separately) differs in French, German and U.S. manufacturing, and has changed since the 1974-75 crisis. We use three consistent …

-tech information technology capital and the distribution of employment, both by occupation and by level of educational attainment. Our … data cover the two-digit U.S. manufacturing industries. annually, 1968-86. We find that increases in the high …

Between 1990 and 2008, air pollution emissions from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent despite a substantial … increase in manufacturing output. We show that these emissions reductions are primarily driven by within-product changes in …

We investigate what happens to hours worked after a positive shock to technology, using the aggregate technology series …

Does the impact of environmental regulation differ by plant vintage and technology? We answer this question using … annual Census Bureau information on 116 pulp and paper mills' vintage, technology, productivity, and pollution abatement … include our technology, vintage, and renovation variables. Sample calculations of the impact of pollution abatement on …