Download or read book Three Essays in Regional Economic Impact Analysis written by Garen Keith Evans and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in Regional Economic Modeling written by Doleswar Bhandari and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation is about regional economic modeling for understanding local economy, economic impact analysis and forecasting. In the first essay, I developed a nonspatial version of community policy analysis model for Missouri counties. In my second essay, I introduced space into my model. I specified and estimated a model using generalized spatial three-stage least square procedures. In my third essay, using South Korean regional data, I compared forecasting accuracy of non-spatial, spatial lag, spatial error and spatial lag and error model using in-sample data. I also compared the impact estimates of nonspatial and spatial models. The spatial components appear to improve the accuracy of the intra-county impacts. It appears that the estimated parameters tend to be sensitive to the specification of weight matrices if the sizes of spatial units are heterogeneous and vice versa. Employment is the main driver of each of the model.

Download or read book Essays on Regional Economic Impact Assessment and Demand Analysis Using Disaggregated Data written by Yunguang Chen and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appropriate use of disaggregated economic data not only improves the accuracy and robustness of economic analyses, but also extends the existing economic models to address new aspects of the issue. This dissertation consists of three essays: two essays use disaggregated economic-engineering data to address spatial heterogeneity in economic losses and regional interdependencies for Tsunami impact assessment and resilience planning in State of Oregon. The third essay uses disaggregated retail-store data to address the issues of estimation biasness using aggregated annual household purchase data in fresh fruit demand analysis. The first essay presents an integrated engineering-economic impact assessment of a potential major Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) Tsunami event on Clatsop County, a coastal county in State of Oregon. The model addresses spatial heterogeneities of physical damages and economic activities by integrating an engineering simulation using Method of Splitting Tsunami (MOST) with a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. I find the integrated model predicts different economic losses and rankings of vulnerable sectors comparing to non-integrated model. The differences in economic impact assessment will lead to different allocation of disaster-relief resources and prioritization of vulnerable industry sectors in the regional disaster resilience plan. The second essay develops an algorithm to spatially disaggregate the county-level transaction data into two sub-county regions, one of which is spatially aligned with the irregular spatial extent of the potential damage from natural disasters. Using the derived sub-county regional transaction data as the input, a Sub-County, Multi-regional CGE model is built to address spatially concentrated risks and cross-regional interdependencies within the jurisdictional boundaries. Comparing to County CGE model, Multi-Regional CGE predicts less economic losses in energy sector but more losses in health sector, due to imbalanced cross-regional trades within jurisdictional boundaries. To support the design of Oregon Resilience Plan, a case study of evaluating impacts of relocating a major health service facility out of inundation zone is also carried out using the multi-regional model. The third essay performs a demand analysis of both conventional and organic fruit at the retail level, using a disaggregated store-level retail data. The study address the issues of estimation biasness using home-scan data due to annual aggregation of household purchases, inconsistent consumption bundles and missing price information of zero purchases. Comparing to home-scan demand analysis, this estimation shows more consistent results in cross-price elasticity between conventional and organic fresh fruits. The retail-store data also provides insights on the effects of marketing strategy and seasonal preference on fresh fruit demand.

Download or read book Economic Impact or Contribution written by Murat Arik and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic Impact or Contribution contributes to the applied regional economic literature by providing a framework for handling a diverse set of projects and providing detailed case studies of fieldwork regarding the health care industry, higher education institutions, the nonprofit sector, infrastructure investment, and a major musical entertainment event. Economic Impact or Contribution accomplishes three major tasks by answering the following questions: What are the differences between the economic concepts used in economic versus fiscal assessment studies? How can we structure an economic and business issue or challenge? How can we create a research product that helps the project’s sponsors solve their problem? This bookhas emerged as an answer to many research-related questions in dealing with regional business and economic issues and challenges.

Download or read book Three Essays on Regional Economic Development and Local Determinants of Poverty written by Denys Nizalov and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Regional Economics written by John F. Kain and published by Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of essays on government policy and regional planning concerning developing areas in the USA - covers such topics as industrial development, industrial policy for both urban areas and rural areas surplus labour supply areas, urbanization, the employment opportunity promotion effects of new plants location (location of industry), capital flows, problems of rural poverty in Southern states, etc., and includes large-scale models for forecasting regional economic activity and descriptions of econometrics research methods.

Download or read book Regional Economic Development written by Benjamin Higgins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1988. Leading international researchers in regional economic development have contributed an integrated set of chapters reviewing the whole field and taking stock of current thinking. The book is in honour of François Perroux, the father of regional development theory, whose contributions to two important concepts in economics – time and space – have been substantial. The book comprises five parts. Part one covers Perroux's work in general and on growth poles in particular. Part two deals with 'the politics of place', population and regional development, techniques for regional policy analysis and a neoclassical approach to regional economics. In part three the Canadian scene is reviewed at national and regional levels. In part four chapters on urban development, small and medium-size cities, and capital grants deal with the experiences of other countries. Part five concludes the book with a chapter on growth poles, optimal size of cities, and regional disparities and government intervention.

Download or read book Three Essays on Regional Economics written by Carlos Eduardo Lobo e Silva and published by ProQuest. This book was released on 2007 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents three essays on regional economics.

Download or read book Three Essays On U s Regional Development And Economic Resilience written by Jiaochen Liang and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In economic geography, there is a tendency to view regional economies as an inter-connected and endlessly evolving system. The way in which different sectors interact with each other in a region significantly influences the performance and future development of a local economy. This dissertation is comprised of three essays on U.S. regional economies, focusing on their resilience in the context of globalization as well as sector employment growth in recent decades. By investigating the impacts of entrepreneurship and industrial structure on the development and future pathways of a local economy, I seek to reveal details about the mechanisms of regional economic development and resilience from an evolutionary perspective. The first two essays are about regional resilience against trade shocks. Different from previous literature in this area, these two articles study economic resilience from a new perspective of evolutionary economic geography, which emphasizes the ability to reconfigure economic structure and develop new growth pathways. The first essay proposes several mechanisms through which entrepreneurs can help to mitigate adverse trade shocks. Empirical results confirm that the adverse marginal impacts of trade shocks on job losses are dampened in regions with higher self-employment rates. The second essay studies how a regional economy converts the adverse impacts of import competition into a stimulus for developing new growth pathways. It is found that regions experiencing greater import competition are more likely to attract new industry entrants, which in turn may offer new growth opportunities and counteract the direct losses from trade shocks. The third essay uses data on U.S. Commuting zones to investigate the heterogeneous impacts of industrial variety on the development of different sectors. The results suggest that industrial variety has a greater contribution to employment growth in two types of sectors: manufacturing industries that are technologically intensive, and geographically-agglomerated industries. This suggests the roles of industrial variety in contributing to growth are principally sector-based, and significantly depend on region-industry specific conditions.

Download or read book Three Essays on Regional Economics from the Perspective of Transportation Demand Shocks and Population Aging written by Xiaochen Zhang (Ph. D. in environmental economics) and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second chapter investigates local labor supply’s responses to demand shocks during the recession years in the context of China. Greater flexibility of the local labor market is an indicator of stronger local economies. The rationale is that states or regions within a country may receive asymmetric demand shocks, so that people from severely-hit regions may move towards less-affected regions, thus reducing the aggregate unemployment rate. It is convenient for economists to study the impacts of 2007 economic recession on countries other than the US, because this recession can be seen as an exogenous shock for other countries. I try to isolate the impacts of this demand shock on different local labor supply responses by examining pre- and post-recession effects. Specifically, the effects of employment changes on the unemployment rate, labor force participation rate, and migration are investigated. To deal with endogeneity, “Bartik-style” industrial mix and “Regress-M” are used as instrument variables to identify causal effects. Results show that the role of migration in alleviating negative demand shocks has decreased over time, which could be the consequence of government-led local development policy.

Download or read book Three Essays in Regional Economics that Consider the Importance of Space Agglomeration and Income microform written by Brewin, Derek Gerald and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International. This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Innovation and Regional Economic Development written by Jon R. Shelton and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first essay develops a typology that identifies the multiple pathways, functions and operations where innovation can occur in a firm's internal business cycle based upon the extant literature that includes both technological and non-technological activities. This is an important step toward developing a comprehensive strategy for a regional economy and provides a common platform for the discussion of innovation among academics and practitioners. The typology adds to the existing knowledge of how innovation works in organizations by describing the pathways, business functions and operations in a firm's internal-business-process; the business strategies used to advance innovation to the market; and the market impact that innovation has in a regional economy. The typology is enhanced by the different threads of literature - innovation, technology, organization and marketing. The integrated approach allows academics and practitioners to understand how and where innovation occurs in firms and lays the foundation for robust metrics of the behavioral relationship between variables under study. The result is a set of assessment tools that permits diagnostics of the firm, industry, market and region. The second essay examines the relationship between innovation, emerging technologies, business firms' investment structure, and specialized types of private equity used to finance emerging technologies. A conceptual framework is developed for financial investment and a set of hypotheses tested for investment between Ohio and U.S. firms. Ohio firms take a different investing approach than U.S. firms when investing in a firm's stage of business development but are not significantly different when using specialized types of financing, investing in industry/technology niches, and investing in geographic markets. The third essay explores the role of innovation in business firms. The essay examines the reasons firms invest in innovation and then test the difference in the innovation behavior of firms. Descriptive analysis is performed in differences in the way firms engage in innovation, their preferred means of pursuing product innovation, and the reasons for engaging in product innovation. Hypotheses tests on the influence of innovation on firms' financial performance follows, as do the tests on differences in firms' contribution to the regional economy. The t-tests of the difference in means in six dimensions of economic impact performance confirm that innovative small to mid-sized firms have greater impacts on their regional economies than do their non-innovative peers.

Download or read book Three Essays on Regional Policy Analysis at Different Regional Scales with Various Methodological Approaches written by Woosung Kim and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional policy analysis requires an appropriate method that is tailored to a specific region because of differences in demographics, policy purpose, and the direction of policy. Each policy can be analyzed through different methods or viewpoints on how to approach the problem. This dissertation attempts to narrow the literature gap by developing computational tools to analyze regional policy at different regional scales. This dissertation includes three essays on different policy issues, each of which is analyzed using a different method. In the first chapter, for which the regional scope is the county, I investigate the impact of tax incentive policy using an agent-based modeling (ABM) approach. In 2013, Governor Cuomo introduced the policy START-UP NY (New York), designed to create more jobs by helping people start or move their qualified business into tax-free zones. Measuring the impact of START-UP NY, however, is difficult because the data are not yet available for causal inference purposes. The agent-based model developed for this chapter is designed to simulate the impact of START-UP NY on the local economy of Tompkins County. The simulation results show that ensuring a stable demand for firms' output is more critical for firms to survive than the kind of tax exemptions offered by START-UP NY. The second chapter expands the regional size to the national level and analyzes the impact of reducing military expenditures using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. Military spending is an essential budget item because it is directly related to national security. Unlike the literature, this thesis does not analyze the relationship between defense expenditures and economic development. Instead, I develop a CGE model to analyze how various industries are affected by defense expenditures, and to identify industries for which increased government expenditures would improve household wellbeing when defense expenditures are reduced. The final chapter analyzes international regional policy to explore the relationship between peace and trade using a structural equation modeling (SEM) approach. In this paper, I explore the impact of peace on trade and vice versa using a SEM approach. I conduct a SEM analysis using the Militarized Interstate Dispute dataset. I propose two latent variables-peace and trade-to investigate the relationship between the latent variables and the indicators. I found that there is a reciprocal effect between peace and trade. In addition to analyzing the relationship between trade and peace, I extend the dataset to include observations up to 2010, which has not been done before. I show using the new dataset that the relationship between trade and peace has remained stable in the decades between 1990 and 2010.

Download or read book Three Essays on Regional Economics written by Nattanicha Chairassamee and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third chapter, it examines the housing supply restriction effects on labor markets and college attendance. Different restrictions in the housing supply generate substantial variations in housing prices across the United States. As a result, these restrictions determine employment growth within an area. In turn, a change in employment growth determines the migration rates of both low- and high-educated workers, as well as decisions about college attendance. In this study, I assemble evidence on housing supply regulations and examine their effects on metropolitan-area human capital. Locations with highly restrictive regulations show a relatively low proportion of college graduates among their residents and rely more on highly educated migrants. The study suggests that a very highly restricted housing supply can slow down human capital growth.

Download or read book Three Essays in Regional Economics written by Heather Marie Stephens and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, the economic recession and the ongoing economic restructuring have led researchers and policy makers to revisit their assumptions about the drivers of economic growth. My research seeks to understand the drivers of economic growth in two regions of the United States that have suffered the most during the recent period – Appalachia and the Great Lakes Region.

Download or read book Three Essays in Regional Economics that Consider the Importance of Space Agglomeration and Income written by Derek Gerald Brewin and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in Regional Economics written by Qingyun Qi and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: