Determinants of investment flows in U.S. manufacturing

Review of Regional Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 269-286

  Brown, Jason P ^a   Florax, Raymond J G M ^b,c   McNamara, Kevin T ^b  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Investment; Manufacturing; Spatial Durbin model

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; INDUSTRIAL AGGLOMERATION; INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; MANUFACTURING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPILLOVER EFFECT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 81855176264     PISSN: 0048749X     EISSN: 15530892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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