An Examination of State Foreign Exports and Manufacturing Employment

Coughlin, Cletus C.; Cartwright, Phillip A.

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“…Studies of state international exports, which are more pertinent to the present study, have considered the impacts of foreign exports on state or regional economic growth (Manrique 1987;Zech 1986;Erickson 1989). These studies, which typically do not involve time-series causality tests, have generally found positive, contemporaneous associations between foreign exports and state economic indicators (Zech 1986;Manrique 1987;Coughlin and Cartwright 1987;Erickson 1989;Webster et al 1990). A recent study by Richardson and Smith (1 995), however, comes to the opposite conclusion.…”

Section: Exports and Economic Growth: Theoretical Perspectives And Emmentioning

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“…At the state or regional level, the linkages between exports and economic growth have been studied within two distinct bodies of literature. The first focuses on interregional exports (e.g., Richardson 1985;Krikelas 1992;Nishiyama 1997;Mulligan and Fik 1994), while the second emphasizes international exports (e.g., Erickson 1989;Coughlin and Cartwright 1987;Manrique 1986). Studies focused on the interregional exports of states, cities and local areas typically involve application of export-base theory to the question of whether a region's export sector drives non-export activity (Nishiyama 1997;Brown et al 1992;LeSage and Reed 1989).…”

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Foreign Industrial Exports and State Manufacturing Performance

Leichenko

Coulson

1999

Growth and Change

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Foreign exports are claiming growing shares of US. state economic production. While growth of foreign exports is often cited as a driving force for state economic growth, little attention has been paid in prior research to the issue of Granger causality between foreign exports and economic performance at the state level. This study examines Granger causality between foreign manufacturing export growth and state manufacturing performance during the period from 1980 to 1991. Results indicate that, at the aggregate level, there is a bi‐directional Granger causal relationship between foreign exports and state manufacturing activity. Among the individual industrial sectors, results are more mixed, however, with sectors displaying either export‐led growth, reverse Granger causality, or in some instances, negative Granger causality.

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Section: Exports and Economic Growth: Theoretical Perspectives And Emmentioning

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Section: Exports and Economic Growth: Theoretical Perspectives And Emmentioning

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Foreign Industrial Exports and State Manufacturing Performance

Leichenko

Coulson

1999

Growth and Change

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“…Similar approaches for estimation of missing data have been used in other state export studies (e.g., Coughlin and Cartwright 1987;Leichenko and Erickson 1997). The state data export series was discontinued after 1991.…”

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“…Over the past decade, passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and other measures aimed at trade liberalization have opened new markets for a wide range of U.S. exports. Current efforts to initiate a new round of global trade negotiations under the aus-304 ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY (e.g., Coughlin and Cartwright 1987;Erickson 1989). Yet, as demonstrated in this paper, some important questions remain concerning the direction of causality between international exports and state economic performance.…”

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Exports, Employment, and Production: A Causal Assessment of U.S. States and Regions

Leichenko¹

2000

Economic Geography

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Clark University is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Economic Geography.Abstract: Rising foreign exports are generally perceived to be a driving force behind U.S. regional economic growth. Yet relatively little empirical attention has been paid to the question of causality between foreign exports and economic growth at the regional level. The belief that exports are an engine of economic growth stems from traditional export base theory. This theory indicates that multiplier effects and externalities associated with export expansion are key sources for regional economic growth. While the notion of an export base is often accepted tacitly by regional development researchers, economic theory actually suggests a number of different interpretations of the causal relationship between exports and growth. Heckscher-Ohlin factor endowment theory postulates, for example, that growth of exports is driven by regional labor and capital supplies. Alternatively, new international trade theory suggests that there is a bidirectional relationship between exports and regional economic growth. Exports are thought to enhance regional growth through promotion of economies of scale in production, but local economic conditions, including strong product demand and agglomeration (external) economies, are also thought to promote the growth of exports. In this study, I investigate the causal relationship between international manufacturing exports and manufacturing employment, productivity, and output across the states and in major multistate regions. Results offer general support for bidirectional causality between exports and state economic growth but also indicate some important variations among the different regions of the country.

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“…2. Methods for gauging the effect of trade flows on regional growth are explored in Tervo and Okko (1983), Henderson et al (1989), Sihag and McDonough (1989) and Coughlin and Cartwright (1987a). 3.…”

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Is There a Trade and Defense Perimeter? The Regional Impacts of Trade and Defense Spending in the United States, 1978‐1986

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Using an expanded shift share technique to impute international trade-related industrial job change, the extent to which structural changes in trade and defense spending appear to explain state economic performance differentials is explored. The findings show there is limited support for the "trade perimeter" argument, but strong support for the hypothesized relationship between military procurement spending and state trade performance. To the extent that defense commitments, especially to private sector procurement and R & D, have operated as an informal industrial policy, particularly by guaranteeing strong domestic sales, they have enabled a significant number of states peripheral to the traditional industrial heartland to build a strong international trade posture. The conclusion offers observations on the economic development implications of these findings.

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An Examination of State Foreign Exports and Manufacturing Employment

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Foreign Industrial Exports and State Manufacturing Performance

Foreign Industrial Exports and State Manufacturing Performance

Exports, Employment, and Production: A Causal Assessment of U.S. States and Regions

Is There a Trade and Defense Perimeter? The Regional Impacts of Trade and Defense Spending in the United States, 1978‐1986

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