Productivity Growth Of Us States,
2010
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Productivity Growth Of Us States, Bibhudutta Panda
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation makes a contribution to regional studies by constructing Multi-Factor Productivity (MFP) growth measures at the state level for the US. The first essay of the dissertation exploits a dual growth accounting technique to calculate sector-specific MFP growth for all US states from 1980 onwards. In the process, the essay contributes by constructing a data set on the state level real user cost of capital paying particular attention to inter-state variations in the composition of output, relative prices of investment goods, effective corporate taxes, and inflation rates for the manufacturing and service sectors. Some of the key implications of …
Searching For Effective Teachers With Imperfect Information,
2010
Dartmouth College
Searching For Effective Teachers With Imperfect Information, Douglas O. Staiger, Jonah E. Rockoff
Dartmouth Scholarship
Over the past four decades, empirical researchers -- many of them economists -- have accumulated an impressive amount of evidence on teachers. In this paper, we ask what the existing evidence implies for how school leaders might recruit, evaluate, and retain teachers. We begin by summarizing the evidence on five key points, referring to existing work and to evidence we have accumulated from our research with the nation's two largest school districts: Los Angeles and New York City. First, teachers display considerable heterogeneity in their effects on student achievement gains. Second, estimates of teacher effectiveness based on student achievement data …
What The Stock Market Decline Means For The Financial Security And Retirement Choices Of The Near-Retirement Population,
2010
Dartmouth College
What The Stock Market Decline Means For The Financial Security And Retirement Choices Of The Near-Retirement Population, Alan L. Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier, Nahid Tabatabai
Dartmouth Scholarship
This paper investigates the effect of the current recession on the retirement age population. Data from the Health and Retirement Study suggest that those approaching retirement age (early boomers ages 53 to 58 in 2006) have only 15.2 percent of their wealth in stocks, held directly or in defined contribution plans or IRAs. Their vulnerability to a stock market decline is limited by the high value of their Social Security wealth, which represents over a quarter of the total household wealth of the early boomers. In addition, their defined contribution plans remain immature, so their defined benefit plans represent sixty …
Optimum Land Allocation For Species Protection And Military Training On Dod Installations,
2010
Portland State University
Optimum Land Allocation For Species Protection And Military Training On Dod Installations, Sahan T.M. Dissanayake, Hayri Önal, James D. Westervelt, Harold E. Balbach
Economics Faculty Publications and Presentations
Poster
Montana Tourism: 2010 Review And 2011 Outlook,
2010
The University of Montana- Missoula
Montana Tourism: 2010 Review And 2011 Outlook, Norma P. Nickerson
Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications
Outlook for 2011 and Review for 2010.
Essays In Corporate Finance,
2010
CUNY Graduate Center
Essays In Corporate Finance, Milos Vulanovic
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation consists of two essays on corporate finance. In the first essay we test the pecking order theory by examining how firms finance maturing long-term debt. This allows us to accomplish three goals: resolve the issues of debt capacity and the endogeneity of financing deficit; examine the role of internal financing; and generate evidence regarding the order in which different sources of financing are used. We determine that firms use internal funds before they issue new debt to refinance maturing long-term debt. Firms with more cash on hand are less likely to issue new debt to refinance. On average, …
Railroads And Economies Of Scale And Scope In U.S. Manufacturing Industries: 1850-1880. Chandler Revisited,
2010
CUNY Graduate Center
Railroads And Economies Of Scale And Scope In U.S. Manufacturing Industries: 1850-1880. Chandler Revisited, Michael Kalson
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This study concerns the measurement and quantification of the relationship between railroadization in the United States in the mid-19th century and the subsequent evolution of the modern, large-scale, corporate form of industrial business organization marked by significant economies of scale and scope, as described in various writings by Alfred Chandler. Focusing on American industry as it developed from 1850-1880 using data uniquely suited to empirical analysis of economies of scale and scope, its aim is to determine whether the growth of the American railroad network, as Chandler contended, expanded markets and augmented the American financial sector such that the …
Climate Change And The Wto: Legal Issues Concerning Border Tax Adjustments,
2010
Institute of Industrial Research
Climate Change And The Wto: Legal Issues Concerning Border Tax Adjustments, Henrik Horn, Petros C. Mavroidis
Faculty Scholarship
Climate change is a multi-faceted discussion: for the trading community, one of many contentious issues in the policy debate over how to deal with greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is the appropriate role of Border Carbon Adjustments (BCAs)/Border Tax Adjustments (BTAs). The role of BCAs has been analyzed in a very large policy discussion literature, as well as in a significant number of academic writings in both law and economics. One can safely summarize the state of each of these literatures as bewildering: in the legal literature there is still no consensus as to whether such measures are legal under the …
