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ABSTRACTThis paper examines the impact of the local and national economy, and the rate of return on competing assets, on land prices in the urban fringe of the Scattle Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (PMSA). The data are derived from a set of nearly all land sales in King County Washington between 1969 and 1984. The size of the data set allows for the neutralization of site specific influences by examining the monthly mean price of unimproved land. The results show that, like other traditional investments, land prices are sensitive to factors such as inflation and interest rates. Population pressures and local economic conditions influence urban fringe prices as well. Land further from the urban core is less sensitive to these impacts, presumably because it is too far away from economic activity to be considered for its value in future urban uses.

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1995.tb00167.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTDoes public infrastructure affect state output? This paper uses both a Cobb‐Douglas and a translog production function to examine the impact of public infrastructure spending on state output. Like labor and private capital, the stock of public capital is considered to be an input into the production process. The data are based on Alicia Munnell's work and were provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Unlike many of the earlier studies employing Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) techniques, this analysis employs estimating methods that take advantage of the longitudinal nature of the data set. While these methods lend support to the public capitol hypothesis, there is evidence that studies relying on OLS have reported a coefficient on public capital that is upward biased. This paper, which controls for heterogeneity in the data, finds the coefficient on public capital to be smaller than that presented in previous studies. This finding has important policy implications. It indicates that while investment in public capital may have a positive impact on the private sector, this impact will be much smaller than predicted by previous studie

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1995.tb00168.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTRegional studies has reemerged in recent decades as an important area of geographic analysis. In contrast to the traditional regional school which offers static descriptions of particular places and people, reconstructed regional geography approaches the region as a dynamic process where social relations are linked to spatial structures. Reconstructed regional geography, however, has largely neglected gender as a social category and focuses on class as the fundamental social relation under capitalism. This paper demonstrates how regions are constructed through social processes which include gender as well as class. Historical and contemporary analyses of women and household economic strategies in rural Appalachia illustrate the intersection of gender, place, and scale. Specifically, employment and poverty conditions are examined using county‐level data and household strategies are analyzed through intensive interviews with West Virginia women. This paper concludes that gender relations at the household, subregional, and regional scales are critical to the analysis of social and spatial processes in regional geograph

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1995.tb00169.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThis article reviews methodological issues confronting authors and users of economic impact studies of public colleges and universities. Questions addressed include the following: How should economic impact of regional public colleges and universities be defined? What considerations should govern the definition or the geographical study area? How should tax support of publicly supported institutions be addressed? The article includes perspectives from recent literature considering these questions from both short‐term and long‐term perspectives. Resolution of these issues depends upon careful delineation and communication of the alternative states of world between which the hypothetical impact is measu

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1995.tb00170.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTRegional scientists have long attempted to develop meaningful definitions and measures of economic diversity and diversification, and to establish functional relationships between diversity, diversification, and economic performance. The multiplicity of definitions and measures explains, in part, the confusion about these relationships. A framework that sorts out the overlaps, contradictions, and gaps of the various definitions and measures IS needed. Such a framework would explicitly address the question, “What is the relationship between a region's changing economic structure and performance?” In this paper it is suggested that an input‐output model that incorporates elements of portfolio theory be used as the integrating framework for ana

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1995.tb00171.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTCompetitiveness can be defined as the ability of an economy to maintain stable or increasing market shares in an economic activity while sustaining stable or increasing living shares for those who participate in it. Government policy in all countries has strong effects on competitiveness. With the turn away from a Cold War economy the Clinton Administration has pursued a technology policy explicitly linked to the quest for heightened national competitiveness. It is based on a rejection of Reagan‐Bush era analyses of the competitiveness problem, which centered on cost reduction in industry. There are many different forms of technology policy for competitiveness, however. Some center on labor quality, while others center on technological spillovers between industries. An effective policy should promote technological spillovers in the economy. All such policies, moreover, are only effective if they are organized and governed properly. The Clinton‐Gore policy has many different programs and methods of governance. This paper argues that it should reinforce the regional level of organization of technology policy formulation and implementat

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1995.tb00172.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:Out ofControl: GlobalTurmoil on theEve of the21stCentury. by Zbigniew Brzezinski.ReworkingModernity: Capitalisms andSymbolicDiscontentby Allan Pred and Michael J. Watts.NowHere: Space, Time andModernity. by Roger Friedland and Deirdre Boden.Rules andChoice inEconomics. by Viktor J. Vanberg.EuropeanCitesTowards2000: Profiles, Policies andProspects. Edited by Alan Harding, Jon Dawson, Richard Evans, and Michael Parkinson.AgainstAllOdds: RuralCommunity in theInformationAge. By John C. Allen and Don A. Dillman.SustainableDevelopment ofSmallIslandEconomies. Hiroshi Kakazu.FullCircles: Geographies ofWomen over theLifeCourseby Cindi Katz and Jan Monk (editors).StemmingMiddle‐classDecline: TheChallengesToEconomicDevelopmentPlanning. Nancey Green Leigh.TheOtherAustralia: Experiences ofMigration. by Brian Murphy.TheChallenge ofEuropeanIntegration: Internal andExternalProblems ofTrade andMoney, edited by Berhanu Abegaz, Patricia Dillon, David H. Feldman, and Paul F. Whitele

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1995.tb00173.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY