DETERMINANTS OF INVESTMENT FLOWS IN U.S. MANUFACTURING

Jason Brown, Raymond Florax and Kevin T. McNamara

No 54835, Working papers from Purdue University, Department of Agricultural Economics

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2009-09
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.54835

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