The report contains three major components: a profile of the technology sector in Maryland; an economic impact analysis of the technology sector in Maryland; and a survey of technology companies regarding performance and critical issues. According to the report, technology industries in Maryland employed 221,540 people in 1997 and these people earned an estimated $10.9 billion and paid $629 million in selected state and local taxes.
The authors seek to identify the factors which influence the contribution that measurement standardization can make to economic welfare. The paper discusses the evolution of measurement standards from the perspective of both evolutionary game theory and transaction costs economics.
The paper considers how preferences for location-specific attributes might constrain migration destination choices. The research provides an initial test of a “constrained destination choice” hypothesis by considering “locational attribute constraints” in the context of aggregate
place-to-place migration flows for U.S. metropolitan areas during the 1995-2000 time period.
The authors provide a statistical analysis of authorship in public choice over the past 30 years. They explore trends in article length and co-authorship, as well as provide rankings of individual authors and institutions by total pages published in the journal.
Previous empirical research has yielded mixed results regarding how defense spending affects economic growth. More conclusive evidence may come from estimating how defense spending affects growth through different channels. In an attempt to examine one of these channels, the author uses balanced panel data to estimate the relationship between economic growth and net arms exports for 62 countries (and some sub-samples) from 1990 to 1999.
China has been highly successful in capturing world export markets. The paper evaluates factors responsible for the competitiveness of China in the world economy and relative to its East Asian rivals.
While previous research has focused primarily on the realignment and closure process in developed countries, the author instead focuses on the need for the realignment and closure process to complement the governments objectives of democratic governance and economic growth.
The author make a comprehensive empirical analysis on all results in the paper by means of the U.S. GDP data from 1940 to 2003. The conclusions make clear that the economic development power, namely economic development energy, is the engine for the economic growth.
The fourth edition of the report contains data to help policy makers and regional leaders better understand the factors that influence economic outcomes at the state and local level. Areas such as research and development investment, number of patents issued and education levels are among the categories measured.
The authors adapt the SECI knowledge management model to the cluster case as a useful way to understand the tacit knowledge dissemination that occurs in the industrial district.