Social accounting matrix (SAM) models have become standard methods to provide quantitative economic impact evaluation. SAM models and methods have a wide body of literature and dates back several decades. In recent years there has been a growing interest in using interregional and multiregional...

This study explores the results of a location survey of new Japanese manufacturing plants from 1997 to 2004 and reports an industrial cluster in Japan. More specifically, this study identifies an industrial cluster and specifies its advantages based on an exploratory factor analysis (EFA), which...

While migration decision-making has long been studied using mover-stayer models and standard regression models, they do not well handle small- and large-scale heterogeneities (migration propensities). The hierarchical regression model can help solve this problem, because it deals with data...

The purpose of this article is to extend findings from the 2008 special issue of the Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy on the knowledge economy, especially the notion claimed by Siggaard Jensen (2008) on ’inversion of authority’ elaborated according to the notion of...

A state space model is constructed so that a state variable representing the unobservable state of the economy is estimated from information on new orders, production, employment, supplier delivery time, and finished inventory obtained from the purchasing managers’ sur-vey for Georgia....

California has experienced a net loss of domestic migrants within the United States every year since 1990. This reversal from California’s traditional attraction to migrants has been attributed to numerous causes including the high cost of housing, the cyclical downturn in business...

Despite enduring criticism of both the conceptual foundation and empirical implementa-tion of economic base models, recent research has continued to investigate the validity and es-timation of such models. This paper applies economic base models to South Dakota and three of its counties in order...

This study estimates the demand for residential natural gas in the state of Illinois using an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach based on annual data from 1970 to 2007. The ARDL bounds testing approach reveals a long-run equilibrium relationship between natural gas...

Linking creation, use, and transfer of knowledge to a company‟s economic performance remains an important, yet little studied area of academic research. In this article, I extend MERITUM Project objectives that seek standards upon which to measure intangible assets. This is important...

This study estimates the economic impacts of a hypothetical retiree in-migration scena-rio involving elderly households and examines the effect of aggregation of study regions in an input-output framework on their regional purchase coefficients, and multipliers. Using migra-tion estimates to...