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| Brown, Jason P.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; McNamara, Kevin T.. |
| The purpose of the paper is to test the long-run steady state of growth factors hypothesized to influence U.S. manufacturing investment flows. These factors include agglomeration, market structure, labor, infrastructure, and fiscal policy. Spatial cross-regressive and spatial Durbin models are used to measure the spatial interaction of investment flows. Spatial spillovers are found to be of a competitive nature at the state level, implying that a factor which attracts more investment to a particular state is associated with lower investments in neighboring states. Investment flows to states with higher market demand, more productive labor, and more localized agglomeration of manufacturing activity. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Manufacturing; Investment; Spatial Durbin model; Community/Rural/Urban Development; L60; R11; R30. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54835 |
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| Ogundare, Adebayo; Ojolo, Sunday. |
| In this work, a variable size nut cracking machine has been designed and constructed to improve the efficiency of shelling operation of quite a number of nuts. The machine is designed to be adaptable to the cracking requirements of some number of nuts, whose shell can be processed to brittleness. The machine performs two operations, shelling of the nut and separation of the shell from the nut. The machine comprises of a hopper, rectangular box housing the cracking drum and compression plate, and a two stage agitated separating tray (to sort the nut from the shell), all supported by a frame. The cracking drum, which is driven by a v-belt connected to an electric motor, also provide the agitation to the separating tray via a v-belt connected a cam mounted... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Mechanical Engineering; Manufacturing; Machinery Develoment Variable nut size; Cracking; Efficiency. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/3333 |
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| DeVuyst, Cheryl Sinn; Leistritz, F. Larry; Schepp, Angela. |
| The purpose of this study was to examine the local socioeconomic impacts of new economic development initiatives in North Dakota's rural (nonmetropolitan) communities. This report is the second to present findings from this project; an earlier report analyzed the effects of four new agricultural processing plants on their host communities. This report examines the effects of manufacturing and/or exported services facilities in three communities and presents comparison data drawn from two control communities (i.e., towns that had not experienced the advent of a major new employer during the 1990s). The information from the two groups of development communities and the control communities is compared and contrasted to discern similarities and differences... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Rural development; Community impacts; North Dakota; Manufacturing; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23577 |
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| Gustafson, Cole R.. |
| The 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances provides robust information on the financing of small businesses including an overview of their firm's organization, financial characteristics, and credit use. Information from the survey is used in this study to compare the financial characteristics of food manufacturing and retailing small businesses. On average, both food manufacturing and food retailing small businesses had positive financial characteristics. Although they were only marginally profitable and liquid, they were highly solvent. Accounts receivable and inventory comprise nearly half of food manufacturers' total assets and a third of food retailers' assets. By most financial measures, food retailers were statistically smaller than food... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Business; Finances; Food; Manufacturing; Retail; Small; Survey; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23673 |
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| Brown, Jason P.; Lambert, Dayton M.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.. |
| Attracting manufacturing investment is a frequently used rural development policy. Previous research in the location literature has informed policymakers which factors are most important for attracting new firm investment. Far less is known about the interaction of birth and death of establishments. A conceptual model of county-level investment in the U.S. manufacturing sector is developed from location theory and subsequent literature. Specifically, we test the relative importance of location factors influencing firm investment, and if these factors influence firm birth and death differently. Local factors include agglomeration due to localization, urbanization, and internal economies, market structure, labor quality, availability, and cost, market... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Location determinants; Manufacturing; Count models; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; L60; R11; R12. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49467 |
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| Alam, M. Monjurul; khan, M. I. N.; Saha, Chayan Kumer; Rahman, Anisur; Bhuyian, M. G. K.. |
| Despite numerous limitations, agricultural machinery (AM) manufacturing sub-sector inBangladeshis growing quite satisfactorily and has potential to make substantial contribution to much needed non-farm economic growth, employment generation, mechanization of on and off-farm agricultural activities, and as a whole orientation in the national development. This study made an attempt to take account of AM manufacturers, importers, traders/wholesalers and retailers, their associations, assess market potential and identify serious bottlenecks associated with this sub-sector. Stratified random sampling technique was used for identifying respondents in quantitative survey, while focus group discussions (FGDs) and Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) were conducted... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural machinery; Spare parts; Manufacturing; Supply chain; Marketing; Import vs local quality; Constraints. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/3682 |
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| Brown, Jason P.; Lambert, Dayton M.. |
| Attracting manufacturing investment remains a viable regional development policy. Previous research in the location literature has informed policymakers which factors are most important for attracting new firm investment. Far less is known about the dynamics of firm death and the possible interaction with firm birth. A conceptual model of county-level investment in the U.S. manufacturing sector is developed from location theory and subsequent literature. Specifically, we test the relative importance of location factors influencing firm investment, and if these factors influence firm birth and death differently. Local factors include labor quality, availability, and cost, market conditions, agglomeration due to localization and urbanization economies,... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Location factors; Manufacturing; Creative destruction; Community/Rural/Urban Development; L60; R11; R12. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46739 |
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| Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto. |
| This paper investigates the empirical link between emission intensity and economic growth, using a very large data set of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance (efficiency) at firm level we exploit NAMEA sector for CO2, NOx, SOx data over 1990-1999. The paper tests the extent to which (past) environmental efficiency/intensity, which is driven by structural features and firm strategic actions, including responses to policies, influences firms growth. Our results show, first, a typical trade off generally appearing for the three core environmental emissions we analyse: lower environmentally efficiency in the recent past allows higher degrees of freedom to firms and relax the constraints... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Firm growth; Manufacturing; Emission intensity; Economic performance; Environmental performance; Environmental Economics and Policy; C23; D21; O32; Q55. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46656 |
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| Chai, Joseph C.H.. |
| This paper uses the manufacturing sector in China to consider whether globalization of the Chinese economy over the past two decades has contributed to the decline in environmental conditions. The results show that China's experience with the trade liberalization-environment nexus is consistent with international evidence. On one hand, trade liberalization has had various positive effects on the environment. Firstly, it promoted specialization in areas of comparative advantage, which, in general, included industries that contributed less to environmental degradation. Secondly, it allowed China to access and adopt the best international practices in pollution abatement technology. Thirdly, it enabled China to transfer environmental costs to other countries... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Trade liberalization; China; Manufacturing; Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48005 |
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| Liron-Espana, Carmen; Lopez, Rigoberto A.. |
| This paper separates market power and efficiency effects of concentration in a sample of 255 U.S. manufacturing industries and computes welfare changes from rises in concentration. The empirical findings reveal that in nearly two-third of the cases, consumers lose as efficiency gains are generally pocketed by the industries. From an aggregate welfare standpoint, concentration is found to be beneficial in nearly 70% of the cases, mostly for low and moderate levels of concentration being particularly against the public interest in highly concentrated markets. Overall, the results support the existing U.S. Federal Trade Commission guidelines for approval of mergers. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Concentration; Marked power; Efficiency; Manufacturing; Industrial Organization. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25201 |
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| Leistritz, F. Larry; Coon, Randal C.. |
| North Dakota has experienced substantial growth in employment during the 1990s, with much of that growth occurring in the manufacturing and exported services sectors. (Exported services include such activities as telemarketing and data processing where the major market for the service is outside North Dakota.) This study presents the employment and demographic characteristics of employees at new and expanding manufacturing and exported services firms in North Dakota. The workers were asked to rate their opportunity for advancement, their opportunity for technical/skills training, and the type of training that would best enable their advancement with their current employer. The workers also described their current housing and their plans to look for... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Manufacturing; Exported services; Workforce; Training; North Dakota; Economic development; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23451 |
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