Productivity or Endowments? Sectoral Evidence for Hong Kong’s Aggregate Growth 1 (2007)
Hiau Looi Kee, Deborah Swenson, Catherine Morrison Paul, Kaoru Nabeshima, Mary Amiti
This paper provides sectoral evidence that sheds new light on the current debate regarding the sources of growth of the East Asian miracle. We test both the productivity-driven and endowment-driven...
Jeffrey P. Cohen, Catherine Morrison Paul
We evaluate the impacts of enhanced transportation systems on property values for U.S. manufacturing firms, allowing for higher-order spatial error correlation. We use a state-level model of...
Capacity and Capacity Utilization in Common-pool Resource Industries
James Kirkley, Catherine Morrison Paul, Dale Squires
Excess capacity poses one of the most pressingproblems that arise when industries exploitcommon-pool natural resources. It entailsover-investment in the capital stock andexcessive use of variable...
James Kirkley, Catherine Morrison Paul, Stephen Cunningham, Joseph Catanzano
Overfishing and excess capacity in mostfisheries around the world have generated considerableand increasing concern about their biological and economic performance ramifications. Theseproblems, in...
Jeffrey Cohen, Catherine Morrison Paul
The size and significance of public infrastructure investment impacts on costs and productivity of private enterprise, and thus on economic health and growth, has proven nebulous to empirically...
Productivity, efficiency, benefit cost analysis, food industry,
Jeffrey Cohen, Catherine Morrison Paul
In recent years, many hubs in the highly interdependent U.S. air transport network have become congested, leading to delays for business travelers and freight shipments. Recent events in this...
Jeffrey Cohen, Catherine Morrison Paul
Economic analysis of production processes and performanace typically neglects consideration of spatial and industry inter-dependencies that may affect economic performance, although there is...
Jeffrey Cohen, Catherine Morrison Paul
In this paper we postulate, measure, and evaluate the importance of cost-impacts from spatial and industrial spillovers for analysis of economic performance. To accomplish this, we incorporate...
Technical Progress in the Sete Trawl Fishery, 1985-1999
James Kirkley, Catherine Morrison Paul, Stephen Cunningham, Joseph Catanzano
Fisheries throughout the world have long been subject to overfishing and excess capacity, which has generated substantial and increasing concern about biological and economic performance...
Cost Economies: A Driving Force for Consolidation and Concentration?
Expanding concentration in many industries has generated concern about the extent and determinants of these market structure patterns. Understanding such trends requires information on technological...
Tracing the Effects of Agricultural Commodity Prices on Food Processing Costs
Catherine Morrison Paul, James MacDonald
Although food processing sector production is inherently linked to the availability and prices of agricultural materials (MA), this link appears to be weakening due to adaptations in input costs,...
Cost Economies And Market Power: The Case Of The U.S. Meat Packing Industry
Increasing size of establishments and resulting concentration in US industries may stem from various types of cost economies. In particular, scale economies arising from technological factors...
Catherine Morrison Paul, V. Eldon Ball, Ronald Felthoven, Richard Nehring
This study uses a cost-function-based model of production processes in the U.S. agricultural sector to represent producers' input and output decisions, and the implied costs of reductions in risk...