The Florida processed orange industry has become more concentrated in the last two decades raising questions on competitive behavior, particularly with respect to the purchase by processors of fruit from Florida orange growers. The purpose of this paper is to examine the changes in market...

As the U.S. domestic demand for fresh grapefruit and grapefruit juice trends downward, the export markets become more and more important for the citrus industry. Prior research suggests that when studying export demand relationships, exchange rates play an important role. The purpose of this...

Urban decentralization and dispersion trends have led to increased conversion of rural lands in many urban peripheries and exurban regions of the U.S. The growth of the exurban areas has outpaced growth in urban and suburban areas, resulting in growth pressures at the urban-rural fringe. A...

This report provides production, utilization and trade data regarding Mexico’s grapefruit industry and an in-depth look into the Mexico’s share growth for both fresh and processed products.

This paper uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) to examine the effects that a growth of low-valued transactions likely has on the quality of export estimates provided in the U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services (FT-990) series. These transactions,...

The users of the national income and product accounts (NIPAs) often compare the growth rates of NIPA profit measures with those of other publicly available measures of reported earnings, such as Standard & Poor's 500 earnings. Differences between the NIPA profit measures and the other reported...

This paper is part of a series that provides the details behind the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s (BEA) satellite account on research and development (R&D) activity. In the current work, the focus is on industry-specific depreciation rates for business R&D capital. This paper begins by...

This paper presents integrated macroeconomic accounts for the United States for the period 1985 to 2002 and discusses issues related to their construction and use. Specifically, it focuses on tying together the national income and product accounts (NIPAs) and international transaction accounts...

This paper extends the theoretical model of Hall and Jorgenson (1967) in order to examine major changes in state and local tax laws and their effects on the variation in tax burdens across states. A user cost of capital series that accounts for the major provisions of federal and state tax laws...

This paper uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) to examine the effects that a growth of low-valued transactions likely has on the quality of export estimates provided in the U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services (FT-990) series. These transactions,...