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A Geographic View of Expansion Choices by U.S. Firms in China

Wooster, Rossitza B. - 2015

How does geography matter for explaining the location patterns of U.S. companies in China? We combine insights from the … of publicly traded U.S. firms who announced expansion of operations into China between 1980 and 2005. Regression results …

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Heterogeneity in Convergence Rates and Income Determination Across U.S. States : Evidence from County-Level Data

Young, Andrew; Higgins, Matthew John; Levy, Daniel - 2015

We utilize county-level data to explore growth determination in the U.S. and possible heterogeneity in growth determination across individual states. The data includes over 3,000 cross-sectional observations and 39 demographic control variables. We use a consistent two stage least squares...

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Testing for clustering of industries : evidence from micro geographic data

Scholl, Tobias; Brenner, Thomas - 2011

We present a new statistical method that describes the localization patterns of industries in a continuous space. The … method fulfils all five criteria for a spatial statistical test of localization proposed by Duranton and Overman (2005) and … improves them with respect to the significance of its results. Additionally, our test allows inference to the localization of …

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Subnational Investment Abroad : California and the United States

Shatz, Howard J. - 2006

This paper studies the geography of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from subnational regions, specifically California and the rest of the United States. The use of multiple source regions, as opposed to one source, provides more variation in the analysis. At the same time, subnational...

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Agglomeration Economies, Investment Promotion, and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States

Bobonis, Gustavo J.; Shatz, Howard J. - 2003

This paper investigates the effects of agglomeration economies and state-level promotion policies on the location of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States between 1977 and 1996. Specifically, it analyzes the level of foreign-owned real gross property, plant, and equipment (PPE)...

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A long-run perspective on the spatial concentration of manufacturing industries in the United States

Crafts, Nicholas; Klein, Alexander - 2017

We construct spatially-weighted indices of the geographic concentration of U.S. manufacturing industries during the period 1880 to 1997 using data from the Census of Manufactures and Bureau of Labor Statistics. Several important new results emerge from this exercise. First, we find that average...

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Location of national manufacturing in international context (the case of U.S.)

Kurichev, Nikolay - 2014

The case study of United States shows that global economic processes significantly influence the location of manufacturing. Analysis of multidimensional data covering 1860-2010 shows several stylized facts. Intensity of U.S. involvement in global economy by set of indicators is characterized by...

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Market potential and distance decay : growth and decline of sectors across locations in urban regions

Klaesson, Johan; Johansson, Börje - 2013

This paper introduces a model which identifies the economic activity of each local economy (location) and observes the time distance between each pair of locations as well as the average time distance between sub locations in each local economy. The study focuses on five categories of firms:...

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Spatial distribution of US employment in an urban wage-efficiency setting

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2016

In this paper, we analyze the spatial distribution of US employment and earnings against an urban wage-efficiency background, where leisure and effort at work are complementary. Using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) for the period 2003-2014, we analyze the spatial distribution of...

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Governance Fragmentation and Urban Spatial Expansion : Evidence from Europe and the United States

Beghelli, Silvia - 2020

This study assesses the effects of urban governance structure on the spatial expansion of metropolitan areas. A more fragmented governance structure, represented by a high number of administrative units with decision power on land use per inhabitant, is expected to increase the competition...

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