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Federal Policy Towards State and Local Economic Development in the 1990s
Bartik, Timothy J. - 1993
This paper suggests new federal policies towards state and local economic development assistance to business. I argue that there is some evidence that these programs can be effective in encouraging business growth and helping the unemployed. But state and local governments do not have the right...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763181
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What Should the Federal Government Be Doing About Urban Economic Development?
Bartik, Timothy J. - 1994
The federal government should focus its policies towards economic development on areas in which the federal government has some unique advantages. Federal policy should: (1) discourage financial subsidies to specific large firms by state and local governments; (2) expand the federal role in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763189
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What Should the Federal Government Be Doing About Urban Economic Development?
Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1994
The federal government should focus its policies towards economic development on areas in which the federal government has some unique advantages. Federal policy should: (1) discourage financial subsidies to specific large firms by state and local governments; (2) expand the federal role in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141961
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Federal Policy Towards State and Local Economic Development in the 1990s
Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993
This paper suggests new federal policies towards state and local economic development assistance to business. I argue that there is some evidence that these programs can be effective in encouraging business growth and helping the unemployed. But state and local governments do not have the right...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005116784
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IPO Waves, Product Market Competition, and the Going Public Decision: Theory and Evidence
Chemmanur, Thomas J.; He, Jie - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2012
We develop a new rationale for IPO waves based on product market considerations. Two firms, with differing productivity levels, compete in an industry with a significant probability of a positive productivity shock. Going public, though costly, not only allows a firm to raise external capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010859497
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Federal Government Debt and Interest Rates
Hubbard, R. Glenn; Engen, Eric M. - American Enterprise Institute - 2009
This working paper reconsiders and adds to empirical evidence on the effect of federal government debt and interest rates.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941125
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The Impact of Vintage and Survival on Productivity: Evidence from Cohorts of U.S. Manufacturing Plants
Jensen, J. Bradford; McGuckin, Robert H; Stiroh, Kevin J - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2000
“survival effect” as the change in productivity of a particular cohort of surviving plants as it ages. The data show that both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014669
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Evidence on IO Technology Assumptions From the Longitudinal Research Database
Mattey, Joe - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1993
specific United States manufacturing industries, using data on product composition and use of intermediates by individual …, owing to the implication of aggregate data that negative inputs are required to make particular goods. The plant-level data … explored here suggest that much of the rejection of the commodity technology model from aggregative data was spurious …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014671
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IT Spending and Firm Productivity: Additional Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector
Stolarick, Kevin M - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1999
conflicting conclusions reached by these earlier studies. Data collected by the Bureau of the Census is analyzed to investigate … explained by understanding the characteristics of the data analyzed in each study. A large enough sample size is needed to find … relationship between productivity and IS spending varies across industries, industry mix is shown to be an important data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014672
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Academic Science, Industrial R&D, and the Growth of Inputs
Adams, James D; Sveikauskas, Leo - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1993
This paper is a theoretical and empirical investigation of the connection between science, R&D, and the growth of capital. Studies of high technology industries and recent labor studies agree in assigning a large role to science and technology in the growth of human and physical capital,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014673