The Free Trade Area of the Americas FTAA will increase import competition for some forest product industries in Alabama but create export opportunities for others. Forest products loom large in the Alabama economy, both in terms of income and pollution. The present paper gauges the potential...

This paper investigates the effects of the real exchange rate and income on US tourism export revenue and import spending with quarterly data for the floating exchange period from 1973 to 2010. Separate estimates of export revenue and import spending functions prove more revealing than estimates...

This paper examines elasticity of substitution among electricity, labor and capital in U.S. manufacturing industry, using cross section data of 2007. In this analysis, Manufacturing industries were categorized into three categories based on input use and technology. Translog homothetic and...

This article estimates the effects of state economic incentives during the 1980s and interprets results in the context of a general-equilibrium specific-factors model of production. The issue is whether investment incentives had a net positive impact on manufacturing value added because...

The influence of data aggregation on applied trade theory may not be generally appreciated. Aggregation can have a direct impact on the direction of trade, factor intensity, factor abundance, factor substitution, product differentiation, and intra-industry trade. This paper develops some...

Issues on energy have recently dominated the economic decisions of several states across the U.S. economy and states in the southeastern region of U.S. are no exception. Almost all the states in the southeast import virtually all of their fuel resources from the Gulf Coast representing an annual...