manufacturing

This paper considers the question, who will pay for new policies to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions in the United States? Detailed Census data on the electricity use of four-digit manufacturing industries is combined with input-output information on interindustry purchases to paint a detailed picture of carbon use, including effects on final demand.

The authors analyze technology adoption decisions of manufacturers in response to energy audits provided by Department of Energy Industrial Assessment Centers. Using fixed effects logit estimation to control for unobserved plant characteristics, they find that plants respond as expected to financial costs and benefits, though there are unmeasured project-related factors that also influence investment decisions.

The authors apply principal components analysis to assess the information derived from six energy intensity indicators. They use two measures of total energy use (thermal and economic) and three measures of industry output (value added, value of production, and value of shipments). The data comes from manufacturing industries in Québec, Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia from 1976 to 1996.

Spatial association patterns of manufacturing activities are examined in this paper with the corresponding economic linkage patterns. The result on the 3,110 U.S. counties for 361 manufacturing sectors revealed that, in the intraindustry context, there is little proof that stronger economic linkage results in or from a more concentrated pattern of the industry.

This paper examines the impact of a sales tax reduction of 5 percent and alternatively, a reduction of 3 percentage points on the purchases of manufacturing and telecommunications equipment.

The objective of the paper is to assess the role of a large set of potential determinants on the process of local agglomeration of economic activity distinguishing between manufacturing and service sectors. The authors focus on the case of Italy making use of a very ample database on socioeconomic indicators for 784 Local Labour Systems and 34 sectors over the period 1991-96.

Three dimensions of the performance of firms in Ghana’s manufacturing sector are investigated in this paper: their technology and the importance of technical and allocative efficiency. The authors show that the diversity of factor choices in not due to a non-homothetic technology.

The report indicates that an increase in a citys share of college educated workers results in an increase in manufacturing output in that city. The author compares the productivity of manufacturing plants to the citys share of college graduates as an indicator of human capital spillovers.

The report from the Center for Rural Policy and Development and Minnesota Technology Inc. finds that manufacturing jobs in rural Minnesota numbered almost 120,000 in 2000, a 25 percent increase since 1990, while manufacturing jobs in the states metro area increased only 1.7 percent during the same period. The study was the third part of the 2002 Rural Minnesota Internet Study, an annual collection of surveys designed to monitor computer, Internet and broadband use.

Applying insights from theoretical tax competition models, the study of manufacturing investment and taxes in the U.S. states makes four contributions to the empirical tax competition literature.