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Casino Gambling as an Economic Development Strategy
No full textStair is an assistant professor of economics at Frostburg State University. Andrew Isserman is the director of the Regional Research Institute and a professor of economics and geography at West Virginia University. *Author for correspondence
The Rural Role in National Value Chains
No full textFeser E. and Isserman A. The rural role in national value chains, Regional Studies. Industry clustering is a useful concept for understanding the interdependence among industries and its implications for regional economic development and growth. The paper claims that the fullest understanding of the implications of industrial interdependence for rural economies requires viewing linked industries - or value chains - on a spatial continuum, from those that are national in geographic scope to those that are highly localized in specific places as regional clusters. From that perspective, rural economies may depend on - as well as contribute to - the competitive success of value chains anchored elsewhere. The perspective is operationalized using a new classification of 45 US industry value chains together with a new rural-urban county typology. The results demonstrate that rural America plays an integral part in a great variety of US value chains. Federal, state, or local development agencies must be careful not to view rural cluster strategy strictly as the development of groups of linked and related industries concentrated in specific rural places, as there are real opportunities to identify and leverage the advantages of rural locations for businesses and industries in globally competitive and geographically extensive value chains. [image omitted] Feser E. et Isserman A. Le role du developpement rural dans les chaines de valeur nationales, Regional Studies. La notion de regroupement industriel sert a expliquer l'interdependance des industries et ses retombees pour le developpement economique regional et la croissance. On affirme que la comprehension la plus complete des retombees de l'interdependance industrielle pour les economies rurales necessite que l'on considere les industries regroupees - ou bien les chaines de valeur - comme un continuum espace, a partir de celles dont la portee geographique s'avere nationale, jusqu'a celles qui sont tres localisees en grappes regionales quant a leur emplacement. De ce point de vue, il se peut que les economies regionales dependent de - ainsi que contribuent a - la reussite competitive des chaines de valeur ancrees ailleurs. A partir d'un nouveau classement de 45 chaines de valeur industrielles aux E-U, conjointement avec une nouvelle typologie ruralo-urbaine des comtes, on met en vigueur ce point de vue. Les resultats laissent voir que l'Amerique rurale joue un role integrant dans diverses chaines de valeur aux E-U. Les agences de developpement federales, etatiques ou locales, doivent faire en sorte qu'elles ne considerent la strategie en faveur des regroupements ruraux qu'en termes du developpement de grappes d'industries reliees et connexes qui se concentrent dans des emplacements ruraux specifiques, parce qu'il y a de belles occasions d'identifier et d'exercer une influence sur les atouts des emplacements ruraux pour les commerces et les industries situes dans des chaines de valeur a la fois competitives sur le plan global et de grande envergure geographiquement. Chaines de valeur Regroupements industriels Politique d'amenagement rural Feser E. und Isserman A. Die Rolle landlicher Gebiete fur nationale Wertschopfungsketten, Regional Studies. Branchencluster sind ein nutzliches Konzept zum Verstandnis der Wechselwirkungen zwischen Branchen und ihrer Auswirkungen auf die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und das Wirtschaftswachstum einer Region. Wir behaupten, dass fur ein umfassendes Verstandnis der Auswirkungen von Wechselwirkungen zwischen Branchen in landlichen Okonomien eine Betrachtung von miteinander verknupften Branchen - bzw. Wertschopfungsketten - in einem raumlichen Kontinuum erforderlich ist: von den Branchen, die von ihrem geografischen Umfang her national ausfallen, bis hin zu den Branchen, die an bestimmten Orten als regionale Cluster hochgradig lokalisiert sind. Ausgehend von dieser Perspektive konnen landliche Wirtschaften vom Wettbewerbserfolg anderswo angesiedelter Wertschopfungsketten abhangen und auch zu diesem Erfolg beitragen. Wir ubertragen diese Perspektive auf die betriebliche Praxis, wofur wir eine neue Klassifizierung von 45 Branchenwertschopfungsketten in den USA sowie eine neue landlich-urbane Bezirkstypologie zur Anwendung bringen. Unsere Ergebnisse beweisen, dass landliche Gebiete in den USA eine zentrale Rolle fur ein breites Spektrum von Wertschopfungsketten spielen. Die Behorden auf Bundes-, Landes- oder Gemeindeebene sollten es vermeiden, landliche Cluster-Strategien ausschliesslich als die Entwicklung von an bestimmten landlichen Orten konzentrierten Gruppen miteinander verknupfter und zusammenhangender Branchen aufzufassen, da sich eine echte Chance zur Identifizierung und Nutzung der Vorteile von landlichen Standorten fur Betriebe und Branchen in global wettbewerbsfahigen und geografisch umfangreichen Wertschopfungsketten bietet. Wertschopfungsketten Branchencluster Landliche Entwicklungspolitik Feser E. y Isserman A. El papel rural en las cadenas de valores nacionales, Regional Studies. La aglomeracion industrial es un concepto util para entender la interdependencia entre las industrias y sus implicaciones para el desarrollo y el crecimiento economico regional. Aducimos que para poder entender totalmente las implicaciones de la interdependencia industrial para las economias rurales es necesario ver las industrias vinculadas - o cadenas de valores - en una secuencia espacial, de aquellas que son nacionales en un alcance geografico a las que son altamente localizadas en lugares concretos como aglomeraciones regionales. Desde esta perspectiva, las economias rurales podrian depender del - y tambien contribuir al - exito competitivo de las cadenas de valores ancladas en otra parte. Tenemos en cuenta esta perspectiva usando una nueva clasificacion para 45 cadenas de valores de la industria estadounidense junto con una nueva tipologia rural-urbana de condados. Nuestros resultados demuestran que las zonas rurales de Estados Unidos desempenan una parte integral en toda una serie de cadenas de valores en el pais. Las agencias de desarrollo federales, estatales o locales deben tener cuidado de no considerar la estrategia de aglomeracion rural estrictamente como el desarrollo de grupos de industrias vinculadas y relacionadas que se concentran en lugares rurales especificos porque existen oportunidades reales de identificar y aprovechar las ventajas de zonas rurales para negocios e industrias en cadenas de valores globalmente competitivas y geograficamente amplias. Cadenas de valores Agrupaciones de la industria Politica de desarrollo ruralValue chains, Industry clusters, Rural development policy,
Ethanol: Implications for Rural Communities
No full textThis paper presents an overview of the U.S. ethanol industry, its location, and the public policy umbrella that supports its growth. Then the paper analyzes what happens when a county adds an ethanol plant, demonstrates what must be done to modify input-output models to capture those effects realistically, and applies the approach to proposed plants in three counties.Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Rural Eutopia: Can We Learn from Persistently Prosperous Places?
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The Regional Economic Effects of Commercial Passenger Air Service at Small Airports
No full textI improve existing methods of regional analysis to achieve a rigorous understanding of the interaction between airport policies and regional economies. I use Self-Organizing Maps, an artificial neural network, to explore data and assess the feasibility of using matched control groups to balance variables across treatment and control groups. I modify Genetic Matching methods to create control groups balanced on a large number of variables and use quasi-experimental differences-in-differences models to examine how the economic effects of commercial passenger airports vary across counties. I find evidence that commercial passenger service has positive economic effects to the local economy, and smaller spillover effects to the larger region. Economic effects of higher quality service appear stronger, and these effects are dependent on the attributes of counties. The results support the hypothesis that a lack of regional coordination by policymakers creates suboptimal funding decisions.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:55:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship for Regional Research: A New Approach
No full textChapter 4 develops new indicators of entrepreneurship that capture all three components of the proposed definition. The identification of innovative industries, industries with high level of skill, technology, patents, churn, and employment growth, using detailed NAICS (North American Industrial Classification System) industry data, represents an important contribution of this dissertation. By applying the innovative industries to single-unit employer establishment birth and self employment data, I create indicators that are available annually for all counties. Using the reduced-form model of entrepreneurship developed by Goetz and Rupasingha (2008), Chapter 5 assesses the determinants of the new entrepreneurship indicator. In Chapter 6, I use a growth model recently developed at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service (McGranahan, Wojan, and Lambert. 2009) to examine the relationship between my new indicator of entrepreneurship and economic growth. I find a positive and robust relationship between growth and my new indicator of entrepreneurship. Chapter 7 reviews the results and addresses policy-implications, problems, and future work.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:55:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship for Regional Research: A New Approach
No full text131 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.Chapter 4 develops new indicators of entrepreneurship that capture all three components of the proposed definition. The identification of innovative industries, industries with high level of skill, technology, patents, churn, and employment growth, using detailed NAICS (North American Industrial Classification System) industry data, represents an important contribution of this dissertation. By applying the innovative industries to single-unit employer establishment birth and self employment data, I create indicators that are available annually for all counties. Using the reduced-form model of entrepreneurship developed by Goetz and Rupasingha (2008), Chapter 5 assesses the determinants of the new entrepreneurship indicator. In Chapter 6, I use a growth model recently developed at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service (McGranahan, Wojan, and Lambert. 2009) to examine the relationship between my new indicator of entrepreneurship and economic growth. I find a positive and robust relationship between growth and my new indicator of entrepreneurship. Chapter 7 reviews the results and addresses policy-implications, problems, and future work.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD
The Regional Economic Effects of Commercial Passenger Air Service at Small Airports
No full text414 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.I improve existing methods of regional analysis to achieve a rigorous understanding of the interaction between airport policies and regional economies. I use Self-Organizing Maps, an artificial neural network, to explore data and assess the feasibility of using matched control groups to balance variables across treatment and control groups. I modify Genetic Matching methods to create control groups balanced on a large number of variables and use quasi-experimental differences-in-differences models to examine how the economic effects of commercial passenger airports vary across counties. I find evidence that commercial passenger service has positive economic effects to the local economy, and smaller spillover effects to the larger region. Economic effects of higher quality service appear stronger, and these effects are dependent on the attributes of counties. The results support the hypothesis that a lack of regional coordination by policymakers creates suboptimal funding decisions.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD
Spatial Econometric Analysis of Property Values---the Impact of Sports Facilities on Local Residential Property Values
No full textMost literature on the economic impact of sports facilities examines the effect of these facilities on income, employment, and taxes at the metropolitan statistical area level. Very few studies examine the impacts of sports facilities on other parts of the local economy. This dissertation investigates comprehensively the economic impact from a spatial perspective of geographic proximity to a sports facility on residential property values (housing prices) in the surrounding areas. The main empirical part estimates a spatial hedonic price model using a cross-sectional data set of 136 sports facilities in 44 major Metropolitan Statistical Areas from 1990 to 2000 at the census block level. The distance from each block group to the block group where the sports facility is located measures spatial proximity. The results show that the presence of a sports facility has a significant positive impact on housing values for the 1990 sample and no significant effect for the 2000 sample. To further examine the impact of the presence of a sports facility, difference-in-difference (DD) approach is applied to facilities built in the 1990s. After controlling for the mean difference in housing values between treatment and control MSAs and the mean change between the post- and pre-construction period the DD estimates incorporating a spatial lag of the dependent variable, shows that there are still positive effects from the presence of a sports facility on housing values in MSAs with facilities. A second empirical part is a case study which focuses on the impact of a new sports facility, the Nationwide Arena, home of the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets on nearby property values within a spatial econometric framework. Estimates from a spatial hedonic model show that the presence of the Nationwide Arena has a significant positive effect on the values of surrounding dwellings and this positive effect decreases as the distance from the arena increases. In particular, after correcting for spatial autocorrelation, housing values will increase by 1.75% given a 10% decrease in the distance from the house to the Nationwide Arena. The dissertation makes several contributions. First, it provides new evidence of the impact of sports facilities beyond income, employment, and taxes. Second, it explicitly incorporates geographic spillovers and spatial dependence into an empirical model and generates more precise parameter estimates. Third, it provides an expanded analytical framework for both policy decision-makers and researchers to better evaluate sports facility construction projects.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:55:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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