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Environmental Policy When Market Structure and Plant Locations are Endo-Genous

Markusen, James R. - 2010

A two-region, two-firm model is developed in which firms choose the number and the regional locations of their plants. Both firms pollute and, in this context, market structure is endogenous to environmental policy. There are increasing returns at the plant level, imperfect competition between...

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Heterogeneous Firms, Agglomeration and Economic Geography : Spatial Selection and Sorting

Baldwin, Richard E. - 2009

A Melitz-style model of monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms is integrated into a simple New Economic Geography model to show that the standard assumption of identical firms is neither necessary nor innocuous. We show that re-locating to the big region is most attractive for the...

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Manufacturing Plant Location : Does State Pollution Regulation Matter?

Gray, Wayne B. - 2021

This paper tests whether differences across states in pollution regulation affect the location of manufacturing activity in the U.S. Plant-level data from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Research Database is used to identify new plant births in each state over the 1963-1987 period. This is...

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The Effects of Offshore Assembly on Industry Location : Evidence from U.S. Border Cities

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

In this paper, I examine how the growth of offshore assembly in Mexico has affected manufacturing activity in U.S. border cities. Under the offshore assembly provision of the U.S. tariff schedule, goods that are assembled abroad using U.S.-manufactured components receive preferential tariff...

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Mark-Up and Cost Dispersion Across Firms : Direct Evidence from Producer Surveys in Pakistan

Atkin, David - 2015

Researchers typically invoke theoretical assumptions to estimate mark-ups. Instead, we directly obtain mark-ups by surveying Pakistani soccer-ball producers. We document six facts: (1) Mark-ups are more dispersed than costs; (2) Mark-ups and costs increase with firm size; (3) The mark-up...

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Who Profits from Amateurism? Rent-Sharing in Modern College Sports

Garthwaite, Craig - 2020

rents flow to women's sports and other men's sports and lead to increased spending on facilities, coaches' salaries, and … other athletic department personnel. Using complete roster data for every student-athlete playing sports at these schools in … collective bargaining agreements in professional sports leagues as a benchmark. We also discuss how our results help understand …

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Regional Adjustment to Trade Liberalization

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2011

In this paper, I study the effect of economic integration with the United States on state-industry employment growth in Mexico. I disentangle the effects of two opposing forces on regional labor demand: transport-cost considerations, which, all else equal, encourage firms to relocate their...

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Internal Geography, International Trade, and Regional Specialization

Cosar, Kerem - 2013

We introduce an internal geography to the canonical model of international trade driven by comparative advantages to study the regional effects of external economic integration. The model features a dual-economy structure, in which locations near international gates specialize in export-oriented...

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Intellectual Capital and the Firm : The Technology of Geographically Localized Knowledge Spillovers

Zucker, Lynne G.; Darby, Michael R.; Armstrong, Jeff S. - 2021

We examine the effects of university-based star scientists on three measures of performance for California biotechnology enterprises: the number of products in development, the number of products on the market, and changes in employment. The `star' concept which Zucker, Darby, and Brewer (1994)...

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Externalities and Industrial Development

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2021

Using a panel data set of county-level employment in machinery, electrical machinery, primary metals, transportation, and instruments, this paper analyzes the role of dynamic externalities for individual industries. Key issues examined include the role of externalities from own industry...

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